Black Poetry


The Collected Poems
The Tradition
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
Finna
Selected Poems
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems
Call Us What We Carry
Love Poems
Black Girl, Call Home
Counting Descent
Magical Negro
Maud Martha
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
Selected Poems of Rita Dove
The Complete Collected Poems
Julia de Burgos
La locura de mi alma no puede reclinarse, vive en lo inquieto, en lo desordenado, en el desequilibrio de las cosas dinámicas, en el silencio del libre pensador, que vive solo, en callado destierro. The madness of my soul cannot repose, it lives in the restlessness in the disorder in the imbalance of things dynamic, in the silence of the free thinker, who lives alone, in quiet exile. (From Mi Alma / My Soul)
Julia de Burgos

Abhijit Naskar
Neuronigger (Sonnet 2316) Call me pilgrim or call me beggar, you be my Shams, I, your Mevlana. Call me neuro or call me nigger, to some I'm Valium, to others Viagra. Without salt from the South of Earth, world philosophy, world science, world poetry, all collapse into dust. Wipe the south from history, you wipe out culture and civilization, wipe the north, you spare the planet the most uncivilized of criminals. Yet, holocaust for holocaust leaves humanity in plaster cast; human defends human ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

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