Cross a Parted Sea: Poems - Softcover

Cornish, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944072712 ISBN 13: 9780944072714

Publisher: Zoland Books, 1996

Synopsis

poetry, "what Ray Charles is to music" (M Angelou)

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Review:

The Boston Book Review notes Sam Cornish's ability to "create a bluesy music out of plain-spoken language," and that's as good a summing up of Cornish's poetic project as any I've come across. His fans include Amiri Baraka and Lucille Clifton, and there aren't many poets speaking as profoundly to and from the black experience. "The Beating," with an incredibly concise style, speaks worlds. Here is a fine poet at top form.

Review:

#1.
1968
Alabama
All Through The Night
America Knocks But Once
The American Dream Of Jesse Owens
American Earth
Aunt Harriet: 1. More Than They Do
Aunt Harriet: 2. The Man With The Gate Mouth
Aunt Harriet: 3. Weary Comes Softly And Low
Aunt Harriet: 4. Little Boy Leaves Home
The Beating
A Bed Of The Ground
Black English
Blues
Boogie Woogie
Booker
Brother Never Take Your Troubles Home Like A Mule Kicking
Brother Of The Streets
Brother Poet
Brotherman
Brown Bomber
Buffalo Soldiers
Bus Boycott
Catherine
Chocolate
A Clear And Present Danger
Cold Cold Ground
Cold Dead Fingers
Consider This Negro Woman
The Cross
Cross A Parted Sea
The Death Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dog Town Slim
Elegy For My Father 1945
Elvis
Fannie Lou Hamer: 1. Fannie
Fannie Lou Hamer: 2. Fannie Lou Sat Down At A Southern Lunch Counter
Fannie Lou Hamer: 3. Lillies Of The Field
Foot In The Dark
For A Negro Lady Of The Evening And Weekend
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Good Jelly Gives New Meaning To Mercy
Green Spring
Hangover
Home Of The Brave
I Walk Alone
In The Company Of Men America Knocks Upon The Door
Italian Elegies
Jack Rabbit In The Black Belt
Jackie Robinson
Josh White
Langeston Variations 1955
Life Was Poor
Log Cabin Negro
Love Letters
Love Song Of A Red Cap
Lunch
Lunch Counter
Man Called The River
Men Of The Farm Men Of The Land
Migrant
Mississippi On The Doorstep
More Than Mississippi Allows
My Banjo
My Father's House
My Lord What A Mourning
My Soul Died With America
Neckbone
Negro Me
Negro Poet
Niggers
Of Dusk And Valor Dunbar Sang
Oh...so Good
Omaha
One Hundred Million Black Voices
Only The White Man Sings
Pastry
The Pews On Sunday
Pitcher Of Lemonade
Poor White
Porter
Post War
Richard From Mississippi The South Has A Foot Up Your Ass
A River The World Knows
The Royal Sassy Mouth
Soldiers' Elegies
Something Terrible Something
The Song In The World Is A Sharecropper's
The South Was Waiting In Baltimore
Sucked His Dick Cut His Throat
Sweetman
Take Me There
That Kind Of Man
Tired From Walking But Not Tired Enough
To Cross The Parted Sea
Trouble In July
Uncle
Uncles
The Vertical Negro At A Woolworth's Lunch Counter
What Work Often Is
Woke Up When Living Here Was Like Being In The Country Jail
Work To Be Done
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

He makes solid articulations his heart shapes with his mind. -- Amiri Baraka

About this edition

• Publisher: Zoland Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0944072712
• ISBN 13: 9780944072714
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 125