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Natural Process | An Anthology of New Black Poetry | Edited by Ted Wilentz and Tom Weatherly | [publisher's device] Hill and Wang ∙ New York
[1 of 8] THE EDITORS OF THIS ANTHOLOGY are grateful to the poets themselves for permission to publish their poems. In some cases poems in this volume originally appeared in books or magazines. Acknowledgement is made to the following:
[2 of 8] The Antioch Review, for William J. Harris' "For Bill Hawkins, A Black Militant." Black Dialogue, for Al Young's "Friday the Twelfth." Broadside Press, for Nikki Giovanni's "Knoxville, Tennessee," "Nikki-Rosa," and "For Saundra," from Black Judgment, copyright ©️ 1968 by Nikki Giovanni.
[3 of 8] Also for Nikki Giovanni's "Adulthood," "Seduction," "Wilmington Delaware," and "My Poem," from Black Feeling, Black Talk, copyright ©️ 1968 by Nikki Giovanni. Carolina Quarterly, for Michael S. Harper's "Ode to Tenochtitlan." Chicago Review, for Al Young's "Everywhere."
[4 of 8] Corinth Books, for Tom Weatherly's "pool doos paid," "mud water shango," "red & yellow fooles coat," "blues for franks wooten," and "tomcat," from Maumau American Cantos, copyright ©️ 1970 by Tom Weatherly.
[5 of 8] The Lit, for Al Young's "The Curative Powers of Silence." Mad River Review, for William J. Harris' "With My Napalm Six Shooters" and "Samantha Is My Negro Cat," from Nine Black Poets, copyright ©️ 1969 by Moore Publishing Company. Negro Digest, for Michael S. Harper's "Effendi."
[6 of 8] New American Review, for Jay Wright's "The Homecoming Singer" and "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting." Poetry (Chicago), for Michael S. Harper's "The Black Angel" and "New Season." Poetry Northwest, for Michael S. Harper's "Proposition 15" and "Aftermath"; and Jay Wright's "The Invention of a Garden" and "Moving To Wake at Six."
[7 of 8] Quarterly Review of Literature, for Michael S. Harper's "We Assume." Third World Press, for Carolyn M. Rodgers' "Plagiarism for a Trite Love Poem," "U Name This One," "Jesus Was Crucified or It Must Be Deep," and "It Is Deep," from Songs of a Blackbird, copyright ©️ 1969 by Carolyn M. Rodgers.
[8 of 8] 23 California Poets (Ante-Echo Press), for Al Young's "Lonesome in the Country."
Natural Process: An Anthology of New Black Poetry (1970 Hill and Wang edition)
1970 edition published by Hill and Wang, New York