Dear Dark Faces: Portraits of a People (1980 Lotus Press edition) (Q8388)
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1980 edition, published by Lotus Press in Detroit, Michigan
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| English | Dear Dark Faces: Portraits of a People (1980 Lotus Press edition) |
1980 edition, published by Lotus Press in Detroit, Michigan |
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DEAR DARK FACES: | Portraits of a People | Selected and Illustrated by | Helen Earle Simcox | LOTUS PRESS | Detroit | 1980
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Copyright (c) 1980 By Helen Earle Simcox
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To the "world-wide dusk of dear dark faces" to whom Langston Hughes' life and art were dedicated
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[1] The editor is grateful to the following poets, their representatives, and their publishers for permission to reprint copyrighted material: LEWIS ALEXANDER: “Negro Woman” from Caroling Dusk, ed. Countee Cullen. Copyright 1927 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.; renewed 1955 by Ida M. Cullen. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
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[2] HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR.: “Black Woman,” “For Billy and Helen’s Second,” and “Return to My Parents’ Home, Christmas, 1979” from No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black by Houston A. Baker, Jr. Copyright 1979 by Houston A. Baker, Jr. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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[3] GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT: “To a Dark Gil” from Caroling Dusk, ed. Countee Cullen. Copyright 1927 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.; renewed 1955 by Ida M. Cullen. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. LEBERT BETHUNE” “Harlem Freeze Frame” reprinted by permission of the author.
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[4] JILL WITHERSPOON BOYER: “But I Say” from Dream Farmer by Jill Witherspoon Boyer. Copyright 1975 by Jill Witherspoon Boyer. Reprinted by permission of the author. GWENDOLYN BROOKS: “Weaponed Woman” from Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks. Copyright 1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
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[5] JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS: “Muse in Late November” from The Ressurection and Other Poems by Jonathan Henderson Brooks, copyright 1948 by The Kaleidograph Press. STERLING A. BROWN: “Chillen Get Shoes,” “Maumee Ruth,” and “When do Saints Go Ma’ching Home” from Southern Road (Harcourt, Brace, 1932; reprinted by Beacon Press, 1974).
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[6] Copyright by Sterling A. Brown. Reprinted by permission of the author. LUCILLE CLIFTON: “My Mama Moved Among the Days” from Good Times by Lucille Clifton, Random House, 1969. Reprinted by permission of the author. COUNTEE CULLEN: “Uncle Jim” from Copper Sun by Countee Cullen. Copyright 1925 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.; renewed by Ida M. Cullen.
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[7] Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. MARGARET DANNER: “Passive Resistance” reprinted by permission of Margaret Esse Danner. GLORIA DAVIS: “To Egypt” from The New Black Poetry, ed. Clarence Major, copyright 1969. Reprinted by permission of International Publishers Company, Inc.
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[8] TOI DERRICOTTE: “The Funeral Parade” from The Empress of Death House by Toi Derricotte, copyright 1978 by Toi Derricotte; reprinted by permission of the author. OWEN DODSON: “Black Mother Praying” and “Poems for My Brother Kenneth (IV, IX)” from Powerful Long Ladder by Owen Dodson, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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[9] JAMES A. EMANUEL: “Black Muslim Boy in the Hospital,” copyright by James A. Emanuel. Reprinted by permission of the author. MARI EVANS: “And the Old Women Gathered” and “The Rebel” from I Am a Black Woman published by Wm. Morrow Company, 1970; reprinted by permission of the author. NAOMI FAUST: “Danny Rides the Bus,” copyrght by Naomi Faust.
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[10] Reprinted by permission of the author. DONALD D. GOVAN: “Recollection” from The New Black Poetry, ed. Clarence Major, copyright 1969. Reprinted by permission of International Publishers Company, Inc. DONALD GREEN: “Growing Clean,” “Poem for a Certain Black Woman,” and “Telegram to One Rotten Stepmother,” copyright Donald Green. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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[11] ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ: “I Weep” from Caroling Dusk, ed. Countee Cullen. Copyright 1927 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.; renewed 1955 by Ida M. Cullen. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. ROBERT HAYDEN: “The Whipping” and “Those Winter Sundays” from Angle of Ascent, New and Selected Poems, by Robert Hayden.
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[12] Copyright (c) 1975, 1972, 1970, 1966 by Robert Hayden. Reprinted by permission of Liverlight Publishing Corporation. “Obituary” reprinted by permission of the author. LANGSTON HUGHES: “Poem to a Black Beloved,” “troubled Woman,” and “When Sue Wears Red” from Selectec Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes.
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[13] Copyright 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; renewed 1954 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. LANCE JEFFERS: “An Aspect of Myself,” “Depth,” “In My Jugular,” and “Trellie: I Am Full of Her” from O Africa, Where I Baked My Bread by Lance Jeffers, copyright 1977 by Lance Jeffers; reprinted by permission of the author.
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[14] “Black Soul of the Land” and “Breath in My Nostrils” from My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land and When I Know the Power of My Black Hand by Lance Jeffers; reprinted by permission of the author. GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON: “Little Son” and “Old Black Men” from Caroling Dusk, ed. Countee Cullen. Copyright 1927 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.; renewed 1955 by Ida M. Cullen.
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[15] Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON: “The Black Mammy” from St. Peter Relates an Incident by James Weldom Johnson, copyright (c) 1963 by Grace Nail Johnson. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, Inc.
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[16] ETHERIDGE KNIGHT: “He Sees Through Stone,” “ It Was a Funky Deal,” and “To Dinah Washington” from Poems from Prison by Etheridge Knight, published by Broadside Press. Copyright 1968 by Etheridge Knight. Reprinted by permission of the author. PEARL CLEAGE LOMAX: “Mississippi Born,” copyright 1978 by Pearl Cleage Lomax; “Retrospect,” copyright 1979 by Pearl Cleage Lomax.
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[17] Reprinted by permission of the author. AUDRE LORDE: “Black Mother Woman” and “Naturally,” copyrught Audre Lorde. Reprinted by permission of the author. NAOMI LONG MADGETT: “Nocturne” and “Tree of Heaven” from Star by Star by Naomi Long Madgett. Copyright 1965, 1970 by Naomi Long Madgett. “Offspring” from Pink Ladies in the Afternoon by Naomi Long Madgett.
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[18] Copyright 1972 by Naomi Long Madgett. “Lost Song” from Exits and Entrances by Naomi Long Madgett. Copyright 1978, Naomi Long Madgett. “Twice a Child,” copyright 1978 by Naomi Long Madgett. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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[19] MADHUBUTI, HAKI (DON L. LEE): “Big Momma” and “Judy One” from We Walk the Way of the New World by Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) published by Broadside Press, Detroit Michigan. Reprinted by permission of the author. CLAUDE McKAY: “December, 1919” and “The White House” from Selected Poems of Claude McKay, copyright 1953 by Twayne Publishers, Inc.;
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[20] reprinted by permission of Twayne Publishers, A Division of G. K. Hall & Co. MAY MILLER: “Child in the Night,” “The Scream,” and “Three Scenes for All Men” from Dust of Uncertain Journey by May Miller. Copyright 1975 by May Miller. Reprinted by permission of the author. GABRIEL OKARA: “Once Upon a Time” from Poems From Black Africa, ed. Langston Hughes. Copyright (c) 1963 by Langston Hughes.
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[21] Reprinted by permission of Indiana University Press. DUDLEY RANDALL: “The Rite” from Cities Burning by Dudley Randall. Copyright 1968 by Dudley Randall. Reprinted by permission of the author. “Blackberry Sweet,” copyright by Dudley Randall. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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[22] EDWARD S. SPRIGGS: “my beige mom” from Black Dialogue Magazine. Copyright 1967 by Black DIalogue Magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author and Black Dialogue. JEAN TOOMER: “Face” and “Calling Jesus” from Cane by Jean Toomer. Copyright 1923 by Boni & Liverright; renewed 1951 by Jean Toomer. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
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[23] PAULETTE CHILDRESS WHITE: “Big Maybelle,” “Humbled Rocks,” “Oronde,” and “Say That I Am” from Love Poem to a Black Junkie by Paulette C. White, copyright 1975 by Paulette Childress White. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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