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James C. Kilgore - African Violet: Poem for a Black Woman

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title African Violet Poem for a Black Woman New and Selected Poems - photo 1

title:African Violet, Poem for a Black Woman : New and Selected Poems
author:Kilgore, James C.
publisher:Michigan State University Press
isbn10 | asin:0916418464
print isbn13:9780916418465
ebook isbn13:9780585179094
language:English
subjectDidactic poetry.
publication date:1982
lcc:PS3561.I367.A35 1982eb
ddc:811.008
subject:Didactic poetry.
Page iii
African Violet: Poem for a Black Woman
New and Selected Poems
by
James C. Kilgore
African Violet Poem for a Black Woman - image 2
LOTUS PRESS
Page iv
Copyright 1982, 1983
by James C. Kilgore
Fourth printing, January 1989
International Standard Book Number:
0-916418-46-4
All Rights Reserved
Acknowledgments are gratefully made
to the following publications
for permission to reprint some of the poems
included in this collection:
Black American Literature Forum, Dark Tower,
Essence, The Green Apple,
Kansas City Times, Obsidian, Phylon,

and The Sentinel Record;
also to Noel Sims for the cover drawing,
and to Barbara Brown and Brady Williams, Jr.
of Karamu Camera Guild for the cover photograph.
Partially funded by a grant from
the Ohio Arts Council
LOTUS PRESS, INC.
"Flower of a New Nile"
Post Office Box 21607
Detroit, Michigan 48221
Page v
This work is dedicated with humility
and love
to
My wife, Alberta;
My daughter, Sheila;
My niece, Loretta;
My sister, Mildred;
My mother, Ruth;
and
the violets of Africa, living and gone, in the
concrete and sandy gardens of earth.
Page vi
Contents
No Ordinary Beginning
1
Until I Met You
2
No Hiding Place
3
Gourmet Day
4
Ambrosial Brim
5
Gambian Magic
6
Sometimes
7
Ripe Plum Lips
8
Portrait
10
Midnight Blast
11
Anarchy
12
The Storm Deepens
13
Dark Brown Dream
15
A Late Monsoon Rain
16
It's Thundering Again
17
The Sun Trembles Down
18
African Violet: Poem for a Black Woman
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Where No Rainbow Had Hung for Years
36
Her Performance
37
She Told Me
41
I Shall Remember You
42
A Lonesome Time
44
Your Silence Is Not Clear
46
Violated
47
Not Too Much to Carry
48
The Hooves of a Powerful Horse
50

Page vii
Night Sang Low
52
An Awkward Silence
53
Breath Poetry
54
"What Color Are You?"
55
The White Man Pressed the Locks
59
Nails
60
Dark Banks
61
Let It Pass
62
The Gray Oak Twilight
65
Black Mothers of Atlanta
67
An Ephiphanic Pearl
72
In Barbara's Garden
73
The Transformation
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