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. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1987.
“Grandmother When Your Child Died” by John Neet George
Doob, Leonard W., ed.
The Crocodile Hugs Me: African Poems
. New York: Walker and Co., 1967.
“The Sorrows of Death”
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The Protable Dorothy Parker
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“Resume”
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“poem for black boys”
“intellectualism”
“word poem”
“dreams”
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The Dreamkeeper and Other Poems
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“Alabama Earth”
“Dreams”
“Troubled Women”
“Hope”
“Mother to Son”
“Ennui”
“Stars”
“The Dream Keeper”
“Dream Variation”
“Dreams”
“As I Grew Older”
“Color”
“The Negro”
“Brothers”
“Suicides Note”
“Island”
“Still Here”
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“End”
“Drum”
“Desire”
“Demand”
“Dead In There”
“American Heartbreak”
“Fire”
“Late Last Night”
“Juliet”
“Life Is Fine”
“Bad Luck Card”
“Morning After”
“Beale St.”
“Poem”
Janeczko, Paul B., ed.
Don’t Forget to Fly: A Cycle of Modern Poems
. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1978.
“Disintegration” by Richard Shelton
“Sonnet for My Father” by Donald Justice
“Letter to a Dead Father” by Richard Shelton
“Poem for a Suicide” by George Economou
“Bothering Me At Last” by David Ignatow
Lee, Al.
The Major Young Poets
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“The Suicide” by Mark Strand
Marcus, Morton.
Big Winds, Glass Mornings, Shadows Cast by Stars.
Poems 1972-1980. Jazz Press, 1981.
“There Are Days Now”
Piercy, Marge.
Circles On the Water
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“Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer’s Day”
“The Long Death”
“Erasure”
“A Just Anger”
Smith, Edward Lucie.
A Tropical Childhood and Other Poems
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“The Lesson”