One More River to Cross : The Selected Poetry of John Beecher

by Beecher, John; Brown, Steven Ford; Terkel, Studs

• ISBN13: 9781588381033
• ISBN10: 158838103X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Newsouth Inc

Table of Contents

Poetry for Survival	7	(6)
John Beecher
Foreword	13	(4)
Studs Terkel
Introduction	17	(6)
Steven Ford Brown
Two Talks to the American People	23	(44)
And I Will Be Heard	25	(23)
Think It Over, America	48	(19)
Poems, 1924--1940	67	(32)
Report to the Stockholders	69	(3)
A Million Days, a Million Dollars	72	(3)
13 Hour Night Shift	75	(1)
Big Boy	75	(2)
White-Eye	77	(1)
Brickroller	78	(1)
Old John the Melter	79	(1)
Run of the Mine	80	(2)
The Best Steel in the World	82	(2)
Ensley, Alabama: 1932	84	(1)
Beaufort Tides	85	(1)
Appalachian Landscape	86	(1)
Like Judas Wasn't It?	87	(5)
The Odyssey of Thomas Benjamin Harrison Higgenbottom	92	(5)
Altogether Singing	97	(2)
In Egypt Land, A Narrative Poem, 1940	99	(20)
Poems, 1941--1944	119	(70)
News Item	121	(2)
The Face You Have Seen	123	(2)
Freedom the Word	125	(5)
Here I Stand	130	(31)
We Want More Say	161	(3)
After Eighty Years	164	(13)
Josiah Turnbull Took No Part in Politics	177	(2)
We Are the Americans	179	(4)
Their Blood Cries Out	183	(3)
White Foam Breaking	186	(3)
Poems, 1955--1960	189	(16)
The Iron Maiden	191	(1)
Screened	192	(3)
Climate of Fear	195	(2)
The Better Sort of People	197	(1)
Bodega Head	198	(1)
Dragonfly	199	(1)
Inquest	200	(1)
Hanging Gardens of Zion	201	(1)
The Master of Yellow Plum Mountain	202	(3)
Poems, 1961--1974	205	(45)
Wisdom of the Abbot Macarius I	207	(1)
Engagement at the Salt Fork	208	(2)
The Seed of Fire	210	(1)
Undesirables	211	(1)
Free World Notes	212	(1)
Yours in the Bonds	213	(2)
Just Peanuts	215	(3)
To Live and Die In Dixie	218	(5)
You Kidding or Something White Folks?	223	(1)
The Camaldolese Come to Big Sur	224	(1)
Four Haiku for Peter	224	(1)
One More River to Cross	225	(3)
Escort for a President	228	(1)
A Commemorative Ode	229	(4)
Woke Up this Morning with My Mind Set on Freedom	233	(1)
The Convict Mines	234	(1)
If I Forget Thee, O Birmingham!	235	(1)
Georgia Scene: 1964	236	(1)
Kid Punch	237	(1)
Black and White Together	238	(1)
As Good As Gold	239	(2)
Pray for War	241	(1)
The ChautauQua	242	(4)
A Literary Memoir: 1939	246	(1)
Our Lady of the Snow	247	(1)
In Communication with the Enemy	248	(1)
A Lucky Night in 1920	249	(1)
A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard	250