Ground WorkHaki Madhubuti is one of the foremost Black poets and has been in the vanguard of Black letters for more than 25 years. He has perfected the ability to combine politics and poetry in a powerful and unique style that is both accessible and profound. GroundWork: Selected Poems from 1966-1996 is a landmark collection of Madhubuti's poetic vision for and critique of African-Americans and American society as a whole. From ""But He Was Cool"" and ""One Sided Shoot-out"" to ""White People are People Too"" and ""Too Many of Our Young are Dying"", GroundWork is a compendium of verse that is both thoughtful, memorable, and represents some of the best work in a generation of American poets of any color. |
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... questions takes serious study and committed action , and fun- damental to such actions is conflict . This conflict is not neces- sarily due to the nature or content of the questions and the acts themselves , but because such questions ...
... questions takes serious study and committed action , and fun- damental to such actions is conflict . This conflict is not neces- sarily due to the nature or content of the questions and the acts themselves , but because such questions ...
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... question remains : how do we , as a peo- ple , regain our rightful place in the world ? Good question , diffi- cult question , and there are other good and difficult questions that must be asked if we are to get answers and begin to pre ...
... question remains : how do we , as a peo- ple , regain our rightful place in the world ? Good question , diffi- cult question , and there are other good and difficult questions that must be asked if we are to get answers and begin to pre ...
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... questions . we can get correct answers if we ask the correct questions . 11 . we have people in our midst who can quote only every body from can to can't but do nothing else . theory without practice is like a car without gas is like ...
... questions . we can get correct answers if we ask the correct questions . 11 . we have people in our midst who can quote only every body from can to can't but do nothing else . theory without practice is like a car without gas is like ...
Contents
Foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks xiii | |
The New Integrationist 21 | |
Contradiction in Essence 27 | |
Copyright | |
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