Inscribing My Name
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Inscribing My Name

Selected Poems: New, Used, and Repossessed

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Inscribing My Name

Selected Poems: New, Used, and Repossessed

About this book

Selected poems from a respected African American poet

Visit our Events page for details about the Kent screening of the new film Jump Back, Honey: The Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin.

Herbert Woodward Martin's body of poetry from the past five decades is, in many ways, matched by no one else. His many poetic voices range from quiet lyrics to angry protest poems, from groundbreaking counterpoint structures to prize-winning historical narratives. His wide-ranging poetry acts as a barometer of various times and tempers in American literature. His poetry is innovative and balanced and has a special way of working within traditions even as it creates its own unique space.

Martin's poetry captures life in the Midwest through the authenticity of his voice, his dramatic sense, and the wonderful innovation of his multidisciplinary talents (poet, scholar, teacher, librettist, and performer). From his first volume of poetry in 1969 to Inscribing My Name, Martin's work brings alive important issues and struggles in our understanding of what it means to be human. This accomplished body of work is a unique combination of traditional poetic forms, the African American musical tradition, and Martin's extensive experience creating and performing theater and opera.

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Information

Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781631010538
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Poesía

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Oedipus to Antigone
  8. Antigone I
  9. Antigone II
  10. Antigone III
  11. Antigone IV
  12. Antigone V
  13. Antigone VI
  14. Antigone VII
  15. Antigone VIII
  16. Antigone IX
  17. Antigone X
  18. Antigone XI
  19. Antigone XII
  20. Antigone XIII
  21. Antigone XIV
  22. Antigone XV
  23. Antigone XVI
  24. Antigone XVII
  25. Antigone XVIII
  26. Antigone XIX
  27. Antigone XX
  28. Antigone XXI
  29. Contrapuntal Piece No. 1
  30. Contrapuntal Piece No. 2
  31. Contrapuntal Piece No. 3
  32. Contrapuntal Pieces for Central Park West No. 4
  33. Contrapuntal No. 5
  34. Lines toward a Formal Feeling (Contrapuntal No. 5 1/2)
  35. Contrapuntal No. 6
  36. Contrapuntal No. 7
  37. Contrapuntal Piece No. 8
  38. Contrapuntal Piece No. 9
  39. Contrapuntal Piece No. 10
  40. Contrapuntal Piece No. 11
  41. Contrapuntal Piece No. 12
  42. Contrapuntal Piece No. 13
  43. Contrapuntal Piece No. 14
  44. Contrapuntal Piece No. 15
  45. Contrapuntal Piece without Number
  46. Second Untitled Contrapuntal
  47. Ancient Elements (Third Contrapuntal without Number)
  48. So Greatly Wrought (Fourth Contrapuntal without Number)
  49. New York the Nine Million
  50. The Deadwood Dick Poems
  51. American Confessional
  52. Coyote
  53. W. Poem
  54. W. Poem II
  55. W. Poem II (a)
  56. W. Poem III
  57. W. Poem IV (a)
  58. W. Poem IV (b)
  59. W. Poem V
  60. W. Poem VI
  61. Prayer 1
  62. Prayer 2
  63. Prayer 3
  64. Prayer 4
  65. Prayer 5
  66. Prayer 6
  67. Prayer 7
  68. Prayer 8
  69. Prayer 9
  70. Prayer 10
  71. Prayer 11
  72. Prayer 12
  73. Prayer 13
  74. Prayer 14
  75. The Forms of Silence
  76. Showering I
  77. Showering II
  78. Dressing
  79. Remembering Hyde Park
  80. Phone Message Found on a John Wall
  81. The New Year Accomplished
  82. Memory Poem for the New Year
  83. The Colored Section of the Theatre
  84. Here
  85. The Spoils of the Day
  86. Sassy Music
  87. In Memory of Etheridge Knight (1931–1991)
  88. Out of the Dead Bones
  89. The Serendipitous Cat
  90. Ginkgo Trees
  91. Tight Rope Walking the Air
  92. My Mother at the End of Her Days
  93. You Shall Skip through This Museum: Life
  94. Ten Variations on a Walk
  95. Return from Walking
  96. The Old Graves
  97. Quietly, Quietly, They Remembered Those Who Died
  98. When You Are Old Enough
  99. Poem
  100. Walking the Old Ground
  101. Quietly
  102. Dawn
  103. Dürer
  104. A Negro Soldier’s Viet Nam Diary
  105. Of Love, of War
  106. O Samurai
  107. Death Is a Departure in Love
  108. Mourning Words for Murder by One’s Own Hand
  109. Sestina: Lines to an Unknown Suicide
  110. Ballad of a Fire
  111. Ballad
  112. Sonnet: Watch How a Bird Flies
  113. Sonnet: The Expense of Memory
  114. Once There Was a Stoned Fox
  115. Moses
  116. Whiskey Is a Paradox
  117. I Sing of an Earth That Is Yet Astonishing
  118. Six Variations on the Theme of Rain
  119. Snow
  120. November 1
  121. November 2
  122. November 3
  123. Address to Mr. Charlie
  124. I Dream You Harlem
  125. The Exorcism
  126. The Lady Has Her Say
  127. Grand Central Station
  128. Safe and Sound
  129. Dark Pronouncements
  130. Playing until Forgetfulness Comes
  131. Approaching the New Year in Pecs
  132. The Washerwoman’s Fire
  133. Walker Evans’s “Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer’s Wife, 1936”
  134. Walker Evans’s “Alabama Tenant Farmer, 1936”
  135. A Childhood Memory
  136. Saturday Afternoon
  137. Penny Postcard
  138. Early Warning
  139. Memory Is the Braille the Wind Leaves
  140. Csontvary Tivadar’s “Old Woman Peeling an Apple”
  141. Instructions
  142. Sex Education
  143. Nighthawks
  144. American Gothic
  145. The Face’s Spectrum
  146. for the faithful
  147. The Mother of the Neighborhood
  148. The Anchor of Rainbows
  149. Dreaming of the South in a Single Breath
  150. The Piano Teacher’s Living Room
  151. Sharecropper
  152. Sleeping Lovers
  153. Advertisement
  154. Greasy Sunshine
  155. Rwanda # 1
  156. Rwanda # 2
  157. Rwanda # 3
  158. Rwanda # 4
  159. Rwanda # 5
  160. Rwanda # 6
  161. Rwanda # 7
  162. Rwanda # 8
  163. Rwanda # 9
  164. Rwanda # 10
  165. Defective Villanelle
  166. Five Variations of Silence
  167. Drive-by Deaths
  168. Atlanta
  169. Black Jazz
  170. Woman with Dark Eyes