Martin Carter: Selected Poems Poesias Escogidas

by Dabydeen, David; Ortiz-Carboneres, Salvador

• ISBN13: 9781900715393
• ISBN10: 1900715392
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Selected Poems of Martin Carter	p. 17
Proem	p. 87
Do Not Stare at Me	p. 88
Listening to the Land	p. 89
I Stretch My Hand	p. 90
You Are Involved	p. 91
University of Hunger	p. 92
Death of a Comrade	p. 94
I Come from the Nigger Yard	p. 95
On the Fourth Night of a Hunger Strike	p. 98
Shape and Motion Three	p. 99
They Say I Am	p. 101
Groaning in this Wilderness	p. 102
To Substitute a Temple	p. 103
So that we Build	p. 104
Now there was One	p. 105
Black Friday 1962	p. 106
After One Year	p. 108
Childhood of a Voice	p. 109
Fragment of Memory	p. 110
Voices	p. 111
On a Pavement	p. 112
If it were Given	p. 113
For Angela Davis	p. 114
Cuyuni	p. 116
How Come	p. 118
In a Small City at Dusk	p. 119
The Leaves of the Canna Lily	p. 120
Before the Question	p. 121
O My Companion	p. 122
The Great Dark	p. 123
On a Child Killed by a Motor Car	p. 124
The Child Ran into the Sea	p. 125
On the Death by Drowning of the Poet, Eric Roach	p. 126
About to Pass Me	p. 127
There is no Riot	p. 128
For my Son	p. 129
As New and as Old (I)	p. 130
As New and as Old (II)	p. 131
Rain Forest	p. 132
Rice	p. 133
Bent	p. 134
Show me a Little Freedom	p. 135
Rag of Wonder	p. 136
For Cesar Vallejo (I)	p. 137
For Cesar Vallejo (II)	p. 138
Bastille Day - Georgetown	p. 139
I Tremble	p. 140
For Walter Rodney	p. 141
One	p. 142
Two	p. 143
Three	p. 144
Four	p. 145
Index	p. 149
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