TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,Lindsay TI - A rock against the wind: : African-American poems and letters of love and passion SN - 0399519823 U1 - 811.008 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Berkley Publishing Group KW - American poetry KW - African American authors KW - African Americans KW - Poetry KW - Love poetry, American N1 - A love poem / Etheridge Knight; A small contradiction / Pat Parker; Haiku / Sonia Sanchez; To Mareta / Herschel Lee Johnson; Reply / Naomi Long Madgett; My house / Nikki Giovanni; For a new love / Cicely Rodway; Poem no. 11 / Sonia Sanchez; Untitled / C. Tillery Banks; When I'm close to Carol, I gotta move ... / Richard D. Gordon; Song in the night / Irma McClaurin; Love song / Henry Dumas; Plagiarism for a trite love poem / Carolyn M. Rodgers; Black woman, you / Clay A. Fielding; Soul sister / Richard D. Gordon; I love you / Bernard V. Finney, Jr; Infinity / Phyllis M. Bynum; Poem no. 21 / Doughtry Long; Man thinking about woman / Haki Madhubuti ; Don L. Lee; When Sue wears red / Langston Hughes; Nobody says baby / Beverley Wiggins Wells; Poem / Pearl Cleage; Poem for Joyce / Johnie Scott; You come to me / Quincy Troupe; Chocolate man / Phyllis M. Bynum; It's a boy! / Micki Grant; New blues from a brown baby / Saundra Sharp; Nesting / Saundra Sharp; Love - the beginning and the end / Carolyn M. Rodgers; Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts / Alice Walker; Ballad / Sonia Sanchez; Love after love / Derek Walcott; Moat / Richard D. Gordon; On learning / Mae Jackson; Free yourself / C. Tillery Banks; Let go and love / Linda Cousins; Drinking beer / Pearl Cleage; For a black lover / Lindsay Patterson; Relationship / Sandra San-Viki Chapman; I am somebody / Ruby Dee; Appreciation / Dorothy E. King; I want to sing / Nikki Giovanni; Pulled tightly / Bernard V. Finney, Jr; Talking that talk / Doughtry Long; A love poem / Carolyn M. Rodgers; That kiss / Dorothy E. King; Marriage counsel / Ruby Dee; Moonbeams / Elizabeth I. Roberts; Before the act / Barbara-Marie Green; !!!He!!! / Emily M. Newsome; Black love in the afternoon / Dennis Rahiim Watson; Seduction / Nikki Giovanni; Good to be in you / Dudley Randall; Autumn poems / Nikki Giovanni; The doorway that we hide behind / Dee Dee McNeil; Flowers / Sybil Kein; Please disturb / Dorothy Meekins; One nighter / Darnley Osborne; Morning thoughts / Dorothy E. King; Untitled / Pat Parker; If I go all the way without you where would I go? / Ntozake Shange; Perfumed moments with my man / Dee Dee McNeil; My tongue paints a path / Eugene Redmond; Quietly / Herbert Woodward Martin; New Face / Alice Walker; His shirt / Rita Dove; I just couldn't / Hasna Muhammad; A quarter for your thoughts / Jaleelah Karriem; Revelation / Hilton A. Vaughan; I'm beginning to see lights ... / Lindsay Patterson; Young tender / Darnley Osborne; Serial monogamy / Ntozake Shange; Secret life / Pearl Cleage; Can you? / Linda Cousins; For the men who ask : will you write a poem for me? / Beverly Wiggins Wells; Loving too much / Dennis Rahiim Watson; Long glances / Micki Grant; Be warned / Lindsay Patterson; End notes / Haki Madhubuti, Don L. Lee; For the count / Mae Jackson; CJ - the end / Dorothy E. King; The lie / Maya Angelou; Last poem I'm gonna write bout us / Sonia Sanchez; Reaching back / Saundra Sharp; Freedom / Emily M. Newsome; Somewhere in the city / Naomi Long Madgett; Souvenirs / Dudley Randall; Jazzy vanity / Richard W. Thomas; Reflections on a lost love / Haki Madhubuti ; Don L. Lee; Why? / Darnley Osborne; For your information B. W. / Lindsay Patterson; Love equation / Hazel Clayton Harrison; Starting over / Dorothy Meekins; Mountain suite in winter / Houston A. Baker, Jr; Your place / Emily M. Newsome; A place called comfort / Dorothy Meekins; Old love / Carolyn M. Rodgers; Reaching / Dorothy E. King; Time. Time / Ruby Dee; Love tight / Ted Joans; Treating my lady right / Dennis Rahiim Watson; Untitled / C. Tillery Banks; Love being loved / Linda Cousins; Now and here after / Allison West; Senior love / Barbara-Marie Green; Love letter / Micki Grant; Letter to my overseas lover / Saundra Sharp; Love letter #67 / Carl Cook; Love letter : dreaming and thanks for the loving / Pearl Duncan; Letter : father to son / Allison West; Letter : father to daughter / Allison West; Letter from a wife / S. Carolyn Reese; Love letter #15 / Carl Cook ER -