For My People / / by Margaret Walker ; with a foreword by Stephen Vincent Benét

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911026156103321
• Autore: Walker Margaret
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 0-300-25114-9
• Edizione: [Centenary edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (61 pages)
• Collana: Yale series of younger poets
• Disciplina: 811.54
• Soggetti: African Americans
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- For My People -- Dark Blood -- We Have Been Believers -- Southern Song -- Sorrow Home -- Delta -- Lineage -- Since 1619 -- People of Unrest -- Today -- Molly Means -- Bad-Man Stagolee -- Poppa Chicken -- Kissie Lee -- Yalluh Hammuh -- Two-Gun Buster and trigger Slim -- Teacher -- GUS, the Lineman -- Long John Nelson and Sweetie Pie -- Big John Henry -- Childhood -- Whores -- Iowa Farmer -- Memory -- Our Need -- The Struggle Staggers Us -- PUBLISHER'S NOTE -- VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED.
• Sommario/riassunto: Considered among the most important collection of poetry written by a participant in the Black Chicago Renaissance, For My People is a series of ballad poems with memorable characters, including the New Orleans sorceress Molly Means; Kissie Lee, a tough young woman who dies "with her boots on switching blades"; Poppa Chicken, an urban drug dealer and pimp; John Henry, killed by a ten-pound hammer; and Stagolee, who kills a white officer but eludes a lynch mob. The memorable title poem evokes the power of resilience not only for black people, but for all people.