Contents xv
E.E. Cummings (1894—1962) 1105
Thy Fingers Make Early Flowers Of 1107
When God Lets My Body Be 1108
In Just- 1108
Buffalo Bill’s 1109
O Thou to Whom the Musical White Spring 1109
My Sweet Old Etcetera 1109
I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big 1110
If There Are Any Heavens 1111
Somewhere I have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond 111
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town 1112
My Father Moved through Dooms of Love 1113
Up into the Silence the Green 1114
Plato Told 1115
When Serpents Bargain for the Right to Squirm 1116
I Thank You God 1116
Jean Toomer (1894—1967) 1116
Karintha 1117
Reapers 1119
November Cotton Flower 1119
Countee Cullen (1903—1946) 1119
Yet Do I Marvel 1120
Heritage 1121
Epitaphs
For My Grandmother 1123
For a Lady I Know 1123
Only the Polished Skeleton 1124
Langston Hughes (1902—1967) 1124
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1125
The Weary Blues 1126
Song for a Dark Girl 1126
Trumpet Player 1127
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Dream Boogie 1128
Motto 1128
Green Memory 1129
Harlem 1129
Feet Live Their Own Life 1129
Caroline Gordon (1895—1981) 1131
The Ice House 1132