An Apron Full of Beans

by Cornish, Sam

• ISBN13: 9781933880099
• ISBN10: 1933880090
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Cavankerry Pr Ltd
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Summary

Sam Cornish's new and selected poems, in the voices and with the lyrics of the blues, grow out of the historical and personal reminiscences and traditions of artists like Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker. The poems are autobiographical and biographical, expressed through such art forms as film noir, science fiction, blues, jazz and other aspects of American popular culture.

Author Biography

SAM CORNISH, appointed the First Poet Laureate of Boston in January 2008, has written six books of poetry, an autobiography and two books for children.

Table of Contents

Introduction
An Apron Full of Beans
Pictures of My Mother	p. 3
In Mr. Sanders' Barbershop	p. 4
Being in a Box Is Better Than Dying Like Jesus
The River Just Keeps On Going	p. 7
Fanny Kemble	p. 8
Hungry	p. 9
In Mr. Turner's Fields	p. 10
The Time Is Drawing Near	p. 11
Preacher Nat	p. 12
Harriet Tubman	p. 13
Harriet Tubman Is Moses	p. 15
Finding the Railroad with My Feet	p. 16
My Father Stole Away	p. 17
John Brown	p. 19
The Overland Mail	p. 20
Woman in a Red Dress	p. 21
Harriet Brings Runaways North	p. 24
Frederick Douglass	p. 25
While Lincoln Is Still Thinking	p. 27
Runaway Song	p. 28
Age	p. 29
Almost Gone	p. 30
Rivers to Cross
Man with the Devil on His Tail	p. 33
Big Boy Leaves Home	p. 35
A Photograph or Two	p. 38
Apricot Bright and Tan	p. 39
Ebony	p. 40
My Old Gal My Honey	p. 41
Liver Lips	p. 42
Workers of the Soil	p. 43
Chocolate	p. 44
Toomer's Gone	p. 45
Sewer	p. 47
His Fingers Seem to Sing	p. 48
Pitcher of Lemonade
Pitcher of Lemonade	p. 51
Uncles	p. 52
Deep Chocolate	p. 54
Here Comes Sunday Morning	p. 56
Have You Heard the Little Presbyterian Children Sing?	p. 57
Sooner or Later	p. 58
When My Grandmother Died	p. 59
Brotherman	p. 60
With a Word on My Lips, I Fight
Since I Have Seen You	p. 63
Annals of the Poor	p. 65
Mississippi	p. 66
Picture of My Grandfather	p. 67
Why I Did Not Give My Seat to That White Man in 1932	p. 68
A Poem's in His Head Just for You	p. 69
The Short Unhappy Teen Years of Dirty Harriet	p. 71
Dirty Harriet	p. 73
Montgomery	p. 74
Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song	p. 75
Bigger Thomas Says Some Bad Niggers Is Over Thirty	p. 77
I Am My Mother's Daughter	p. 79
Young James B.	p. 81
The World of (Some of) Our Fathers
Our Fathers	p. 85
All We Have	p. 86
They Won't Forget	p. 87
Meat	p. 89
Eleanor Roosevelt	p. 90
Country Gathers Like a Single Person	p. 91
The Country Is Draped in Black	p. 92
Abide with Me	p. 93
Hiroshima My Love	p. 95
Hogmeat
Some Chitterlings for Joe	p. 99
Strong	p. 100
The Green Hornet	p. 102
The Clean Well Dressed Men	p. 104
The Phantom Lady	p. 106
Boogie Woogie	p. 107
Jackie Robinson	p. 108
Mister	p. 109
Lady Day	p. 110
Sucked His Dick Cut His Throat	p. 112
Listen to the Men Like Gloria Did	p. 113
Where The Daytime Falls	p. 114
What I Don't Have in Spades	p. 115
Southland	p. 116
Carmen Jones	p. 117
We Have Never Loved	p. 119
Mama Mine	p. 120
Negro Women of the Movies	p. 121
Coffin and Digger	p. 123
Street Song	p. 125
Frankie Has a Song for You
Sinatra	p. 129
Pickup on South Street	p. 131
Taxi Driver	p. 134
Mars Attacks	p. 136
Thousands Make the Dusk of Africa
Sweet Song Once in All the World	p. 139
The South Was Waiting	p. 140
The River the World Knows	p. 143
My Lord What a Morning	p. 144
Fannie Lou Hamer	p. 145
Freedom School	p. 147
Bus Boycott	p. 148
The Vertical Negro to Mr. Jim Crow	p. 149
Lunch	p. 150
Tired from Walking But Not Tired Enough to Sit Down in That Bus	p. 151
That Kind of Preaching	p. 152
James Baldwin	p. 153
My Brother Is Homemade	p. 154
Things of the Street	p. 155
Birmingham 1968	p. 156
Death of Dr. King	p. 157
Brother Poet	p. 158
Ray Charles	p. 159
Long Hair Thank God Almighty Nappy Hair	p. 160
Black Poet Negro No More	p. 161
1976	p. 162
For Being There	p. 163
Boom Box	p. 164
Soldier's Story	p. 167
The South Is My Home	p. 168
Epilogue
Elegy	p. 173
A Personal Glossary	p. 175
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