Undersong : chosen poems, old and new
(Book)

pt. 1. From Coal, First Cities, and Cables to Rage. Memorial. Memorial II. Return. To A Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On. Oaxaca. Gemini. Pirouette. The Maiden. Echo. Suspension. Father Son And Holy Ghost. Father, The Year Has Fallen. Bloodbirth. Coal. Song. Conversation In Crisis. Now That I Am Forever With Child. What My Child Learns Of The Sea. The Woman Thing. And What About The Children. Suffer The Children. Spring People. Generation. Bridge Through My Window. A Family Resemblance. Summer Oracle. Rites Of Passage. Rooming Houses Are Old Women. On A Night Of The Full Moon. Hard Love Rock. When The Saints Come Marching In. Dreams Bite. The Dozens. Fantasy And Conversation. Sowing. Martha. Poem For A Poet. Story Books On A Kitchen Table --

pt. 2. From A Land Where Other People Live. Equinox. The Seventh Sense. Change Of Season. For Each Of You. New Year's Day. Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap. As I Grow Up Again. Neighbors. Love, Maybe. Conclusion. The Winds Of Orisha. Who Said It Was Simple. The Day They Eulogized Mahalia. Progress Report. Black Mother Woman. Teacher. Generation II. Relevant Is Different Points On The Circle. Dear Toni ... Prologue. Moving Out Or The End Of Cooperative Living. Signs. Movement Song --

pt. 3. From New York Head Shop and Museum. Mentor. Revolution Is One Form Of Social Change. The American Cancer Society Or There Is More Than One Way To Skin A Coon. A Sewerplant Grows In Harlem Or I'm A Stranger Here Myself. Cables To Rage Or I've Been Talking On This Street Corner. Release Time. Ballad From Childhood. New York City. To The Girl Who Lives In A Tree. Hard Love Rock II. Love Poem. Song For A Thin Sister. St. Louis A City Out of Time. To My Daughter The Junkie On A Train. The Bees. A Birthday Memorial To Seventh Street. My Fifth Trip To Washington Ended In Northeast Delaware. Barren. Separation. Vietnam Addenda. The Workers Rose On May Day Or Postscript to Karl Marx. Keyfoods. A Trip On The Staten Island Ferry. Now. Memorial III

From A Phone Booth On Broadway.

And Don't Think I Won't Be Waiting. For My Singing Sister. Monkeyman. Oya. The Brown Menace Or Poem To The Survival Of Roaches. Sacrifice. Blackstudies --

pt. 4. New Poems 1978-1982. The Evening News. Za Ki Tan Ke Parlay Lot. Afterimages. A Poem For Women In Rage. October. Sister, Morning Is A Time For Miracles. Need: A Chorale For Black Woman Voices.