Folks Like Me: Poems - Hardcover

Sam Cornish writes about the black experience with an uncanny ear for the details of speech and a keenly historical sensibility. These poems draw the reader into early bus boycotts, red scares, and the lives of fascinating figures like Joe Louis, Sojourner Truth, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. In the latter poem, Cornish gets a strong, bluesy feel that gives the reader a good idea of how important sound and flow are in Cornish's work: "talking / singing / cocky in his Stetson hat /said/(me and my guitar /makes everything all / right)."

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1953
1960
Almost Gone
America As A Cabin
Annals Of The Poor
Apricot Bright And Tan
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been
Black Bolsheviks I Have Known
Black Is A Negro Full Of Speeches
Blues (a Christian Fundamentalist Speaks)
Blues Let Me Tell You
Christian Hair
Claude Mckay
Coke Bottle Glases
D. W. Griffith Elegy
Deep Chocolate
Drinking A Hard Work Day
Dusk Song For The Brown Bomber
Ebony
Eddie Loves Little Lulu
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elegy
Elegy
Emmett Till (august 1955)
Folks Like Me
Forever Robeson
Frederick Douglass
From Our Terrible Heart
General
Half A Negro
Hard Times
Harlem Is The Place Of Joyful Negro Song Understand Gershwin
Have You Heard The Little Presbyterian Children Sing
His Fingers Seem To Sing
Historiccal Novelists %those Indian Dead
Home Grown Nigger #2
Homegrown Nigger #1
Honky Tonk
Horseface
I Married A Communist
If The Negro Cannot See Work As Honorable
James Baldwin
John's Poem: We Are Brothers & Talk That Way
Landlord You're Wearin' The Door Out
Larry Neal
Life Has Kicked Me (on Getting My First Subpoena)
The Lincoln Brigade
Literary New England
Long Hair God Almighty Nappy Hair
Ma
Marcus Garvey To Be A Negro
Meat
My Darkness Burns The Cross
Negro Communists 2
Negro Communits
Negro Enough For Me
Negro Hero In Ebony Magazine Life Magazine Black Bourgeoisie
Not Long For The Day
Ohio After The Shooting At Kent State (june 1970)
Pauli Murray
Picket Lines And Rubber Hose Wherever I Go
Preacher's Yellow Son
Renters
Riot
The Road That Lies Beneath
Robert Hayden
Robert W. Lee A Friend
Scottsboro Boy
Sewer
Since I Have Seen You
Sleeping So Long The Bus Boycott
Sojourner
Southern Sisters
Spring 1931
Street Song
Strong
Sunday Morning
Sweet Tooth
The Talented 90%
Tap
Thoughts Of A Georgia Boy
To Howard Fast
Unemployment Line Blues
Walter White
What Can (blind) Lemon Do?
While Lincoln Is Still Thinking
Why I Did Not Give My Seat To That White Man In 1932
Workers Of The Soil
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ