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Volume 6, Issue 2 (1975) Spring: Black Writing

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.6 no.2, Spring, 1975

https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1812

Contents

The First Act of Liberation Is to Destroy One's Cage p. 1-1
Michael S. Harper
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Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers p. 1-2
Robert Hayden
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning p. 2-3
Alice Walker
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Leaving Eden p. 3-3
Ralph A. Dickey
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Butterfly Piece p. 3-3
Robert Hayden
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The Father p. 4-4
Gayl Jones
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The City p. 4-4
Raymond R. Patterson
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Fifteen p. 5-5
Shirley Williams
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Soft Kid p. 5-5
Waring Cuney
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Dizz on TV p. 6-6
Alvin Aubert
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The Return of Julian the Apostate to Rome p. 6-7
Ishmael Reed
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Alice p. 7-8
Michael S. Harper
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Finale p. 9-9
Ann duCille
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Parish Doctor p. 9-10
Sterling A. Brown
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To John Oliver Killens in 1974 p. 10-11
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Deep Song p. 11-11
Gayl Jones
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The Point of the Western Pen p. 12-12
Etheridge Knight
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The Old Women of Paris p. 12-13
Dudley Randall
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Jericho p. 13-13
Ai .
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Soul Soul Super Bowl p. 13-15
George Barlow
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Power p. 16-17
Audre Lorde
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Ungod at the Font of the Blues p. 17-18
Anthony McNeill
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Words p. 18-18
Raymond R. Patterson
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To All Brothers: From All Sisters p. 18-19
Sonia Sanchez
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Open p. 19-20
Jerry W. Ward
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Lébé p. 20-21
Jay Wright
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Homage to My Hair p. 22-22
Lucille Clifton
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This Is C. T. R. Reed p. 22-22
Mari Evans
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From "The Book of Shine, XII" p. 23-23
Calvin Forbes
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Dust p. 23-24
Everett Hoagland
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July 4, 1974 p. 24-24
June Jordan
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He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America p. 24-25
Primus St. John
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For Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1972 p. 25-26
Margaret Walker
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Two Egyptian Portrait Masks: Nefert-iti; Akhenaten p. 26-27
Robert Hayden
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Riding Back on a 30-Year-Old Tractor after Pulling out the Car I Drove into a Ditch, Watching Stars and Lightning from the Northwest p. 27-28
Philip Bryant
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Homage to My Hips p. 28-28
Lucille Clifton
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Another Note for a Future Memory p. 28-29
Alvin Aubert
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Providence, Rhode Island p. 29-30
Al Young
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Mr. Booker T. p. 30-31
James W. Blake
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Port Arthur p. 31-32
Shirley Williams
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Boston p. 32-34
George Buggs
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Boston, 5:00 a.m.: 11/74 p. 34-34
Etheridge Knight
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The Missionaries p. 34-35
Samuel Allen
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1855

Christ's Bracero p. 35-36

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Silent Canto p. 36-36
Horace Coleman
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In an Office of English p. 36-37
Ron Welburn
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1858

The Silent Songwriter of Our Apocalypse p. 37-38
Reginald Lockett
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On a New York Street Corner: Canvas #14 p. 38-39
Quincy Troupe
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1860

Richmond Barthé: "Meeting in Lyon" p. 39-40
Melvin Dixon
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1861

Talking to My Grandmother Who Died Poor Some Years Ago p. 40-41
Alice Walker
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1862

Nightmare Begins Responsibility p. 41-42
Michael S. Harper
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Introduction p. 42-44
Al Young
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John Henry's Home p. 44-53
John McCluskey
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Problems of Art p. 53-67
James Alan McPherson
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From "Cakewalk Kangaroo" p. 67-74
Alison Mills
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From "Flight to Canada" p. 74-82
Ishmael Reed
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1868

Visions of Love and Manliness in a Blackening World: Dramas of Black Life from 1953-1970 p. 82-99
Darwin T. Turner
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Saga of the Black Man (A Pageant-Drama) p. 99-128
Sarah Webster Fabio
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1870

Back Matter

Notes on contributors and back matter, The Iowa Review, v.6 no.2, Spring, 1975 p. 129-134

https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1871

Guest Editors

Poetry: Michael S. Harper
Fiction: Al Young
Criticism and Drama: Darwin D. Turner

Editors

Editor: Thomas R. Whitaker
Managing Editor: K. K. Merker
Poetry Editors: Charles Wright; Sandra McPherson
Assistant Poetry Editor: David St. John
Fiction Editor: Robert Coover
Assistant Fiction Editor: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Editorial Assistants: Ernesto Trejo; Douglas Unger; Nicholas Gerogiannis
Business Manager: Norman Sage