The Complete Works of Pat Parker, edited by Julie R. Enszer Poems copyright 2016 by Anastasia Dunham-Parker-Brady. All rights reserved. A Midsummer Nights Press 3 Norden Drive Brookville NY 11545 amidsummernightspress@gmail.com www.amidsummernightspress.com Sinister Wisdom, Inc. 2333 Mcintosh Road Dover, FL 33527 sinisterwisdom@gmail.com www.sinisterwisdom.org Designed by Nieves Guerra.
Cover photo 2016 JEB (Joan E. Biren). Used with permission. Title page drawing first appeared in Child of Myself . First edition, October 2016 ISBN-13: 978-1-938334-22-1 Simultaneously published as Sinister Wisdom 102, ISSN: 0196-1853. on recycled paper.
Contents
Coming On Strong: A Legacy of Pat Parker by Judy Grahn Movement in Black Foreword by Audre Lorde
MARRIED Goat Child For Donna [Sometimes my husband] Fuller Brush Day [To see a man cry] You cant be sure of anything these days Exodus A Moment Left Behind From Deep Within
LIBERATION FRONTS [My hands are big] [from cavities of bones] [Brother] [Have you ever tried to hid?] [In English Lit.,] [My heart is fresh cement,] Dialogue [With the sun] For Michael on His Third Birthday A Family Tree Sunday Pied Piper [i wonder] Where do you go to become a non-citizen? [I am a child of America] To My Vegetarian Friend For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend .... 76 [Tour America!] [Im so tired] The What Liberation Front? Snatches of a Day [Boots are being polished] Questions [i have a dream]
MOVEMENT IN BLACK Movement in Black
BEING GAY [Move in darkness] [My lover is a woman] Cop-out For Willyce Best Friends Pit Stop [When i drink] For the Straight Folks (Who Dont Mind Gays But Wish They Werent So BLATANT My Lady Aint No Lady Non-monogamy Is A Pain in the Butt
LOVE POEMS [love] [Let me come to you naked] [I have a solitary lover] I Kumquat You A Small Contradiction [i wish that i could hate you] [Bitch!] [Sitting here,] [If it were possible] I Have On Jealousy [As you entered] Metamorphosis Para Maria Sandra gente Group The Law Womanslaughter Autumn Morning [when i was a child] [there is a woman in this town]
NEW WORK Great God Between the Light Sublimation Massage Reputation Progeny Its Not So Bad For Audre Funny
Jonestown & Other Madness foreword love isnt bar conversation my brother georgia, georgia georgia on my mind one thanksgiving day aftermath breaking up maybe i should have been a teacher childs play jonestown legacy
Prose The Demonstrator Autobiography Chapter One Shoes Mama and the Hogs Revolution: Its Not Neat or Pretty or Quick Poetry at Womens Music Festivals: Oil and Water Gay Parenting, Or, Look out, Anita The 1987 March on Washington: The Morning Rally
T wo Plays Hard Time Pinochle
Restored Poems From Child of Myself Assassination Ice Cream Blues From Pit Stop To an Unlabelled
Uncollected Poems: 1960s The Mirror Of Life [I have seen death] To a Friend City Song Not a Good Night To a Poet, dead Please you all Two Faces of Black Gold Stars & Hollow Bags [A sea hawk soars above my head.] CONFRONTATION Berkeley 66 A Voice from Watts Poem to my Mother Costume Party Soldiers boots are With Love to Lyndon white folks Summer From the Wars To a Deaf Poet [Two people walk] [Why burn a candle in daylight?] Going to the bridge now [all] [the streets] [There are so many bags to fall in]
Uncollected Poems: 1970s Speech by a Black Nationalist to a white Audience. 76 [Tour America!] [Im so tired] The What Liberation Front? Snatches of a Day [Boots are being polished] Questions [i have a dream]
MOVEMENT IN BLACK Movement in Black
BEING GAY [Move in darkness] [My lover is a woman] Cop-out For Willyce Best Friends Pit Stop [When i drink] For the Straight Folks (Who Dont Mind Gays But Wish They Werent So BLATANT My Lady Aint No Lady Non-monogamy Is A Pain in the Butt
LOVE POEMS [love] [Let me come to you naked] [I have a solitary lover] I Kumquat You A Small Contradiction [i wish that i could hate you] [Bitch!] [Sitting here,] [If it were possible] I Have On Jealousy [As you entered] Metamorphosis Para Maria Sandra gente Group The Law Womanslaughter Autumn Morning [when i was a child] [there is a woman in this town]
NEW WORK Great God Between the Light Sublimation Massage Reputation Progeny Its Not So Bad For Audre Funny
Jonestown & Other Madness foreword love isnt bar conversation my brother georgia, georgia georgia on my mind one thanksgiving day aftermath breaking up maybe i should have been a teacher childs play jonestown legacy
Prose The Demonstrator Autobiography Chapter One Shoes Mama and the Hogs Revolution: Its Not Neat or Pretty or Quick Poetry at Womens Music Festivals: Oil and Water Gay Parenting, Or, Look out, Anita The 1987 March on Washington: The Morning Rally
T wo Plays Hard Time Pinochle