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2526 Masks
2528 Just Don't Never Give Up on Love
2530 A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King
2532 Father and Daughter
2533 Tomas Rivera (1935-1984)
2534 from ... y no se 10 trag6la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
2541 Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)
2542 the thirty eighth year
2544 i am accused of tending to the past
2544 at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
2545 reply
2546 in white america
2548 June Jordan (b. 1936)
2550 Poem About My Rights
2552 To Free Nelson Mandela
2554 Moving Towards Home
2556 Rudolfo A. Anaya (b. 1937)
2558 from Bless Me, Ultima
2558 Dieciocho
2566 Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
2568 Entropy
2577 Nicholasa Mohr (b. 1938)
2578 from Rituals of Survival
2585 Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
2586 from Cathedral
2586 A Small Good Thing
2601 Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938)
2603 Instructions to All Persons
2605 Two Variations on a Theme by Thelonius Monk
as Inspired by Mal Waldron
2605 Introduction: Monk's Prosody
2606 I. Blue Monk (linear)
2610 II. Blue Monk (percussive)
2610 Kicking the Habit
2613 On Being Asian American
2614 Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
2615 Song: I Want a Witness
2615 Nightmare Begins Responsibility
2616 Here Where Coltrane Is
2617 A Narrative of the Life and Times ofJohn Coltrane: Played by Himself
2618 Camp Story