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A screaming whisper : poems, by Vanessa Howard ; photographs by J. Pinderhughes

Creator
Summary
A young black poet expresses her anger at ghetto life as well as her compassion for those who seek to escape its pain
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
ix, 59 p.
Note
  • "A number of the poems in this book originally appeared in The voice of the children"--T.p. verso
  • Includes index of first lines
Contents
  • Monument in Black
  • Victims of Slavery
  • The New Math
  • i am frightened that/the flame of hate/will burn me
  • To the Nature Lovers
  • Dead End Kids
  • Natural Aruba
  • For My Children
  • Jesus Christ can you justify/just what's happening to me
  • We Disappear to Dance
  • Praise the rat-infested rooftop
  • We have had/stand ins
  • Yesterday while walking down/the avenue
  • He stood a tall silhouette of love
  • Your eyes like cups of wine
  • my thoughts are i love you
  • dark so dark
  • The night is beautiful
  • Caressing caresses
  • Subconsciously/I think of you
  • A Poem for Michael
  • America/an overdeveloped/animosity stamping out the dreams
  • Calmness hits the careless streets
  • Life Is a Two-Way Experience
  • Blind are we who cannot tell the/bitter from the sweet
  • In the sweetness of silent death
  • In the misty hollow of the morning
  • For My Grandpa
  • Abandoned
  • What uncaring creator on this earth
  • Carelessly
  • The corner coffee klatch begins
  • Gifts of America
  • He lay in the alley
  • Observations on a Subway Train
  • Yesterday
  • The night seems to/cry
  • They took away the/windmill
  • Acknowledgment
  • After the Rain
  • Don't tell me you don't understand
  • The silent city cries today
  • Agnew rushes into the waiting room
  • Cars screech, sirens roar with discontentment
Isbn
9780030913044
Instance
Label
A screaming whisper : poems
Title
A screaming whisper
Title remainder
poems
Statement of responsibility
by Vanessa Howard ; photographs by J. Pinderhughes
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A young black poet expresses her anger at ghetto life as well as her compassion for those who seek to escape its pain
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
811/.5/4
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS3558.O883
LC item number
S3
Literary form
poetry
Label
A screaming whisper : poems, by Vanessa Howard ; photographs by J. Pinderhughes
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • "A number of the poems in this book originally appeared in The voice of the children"--T.p. verso
  • Includes index of first lines
Contents
  • Monument in Black
  • Victims of Slavery
  • The New Math
  • i am frightened that/the flame of hate/will burn me
  • To the Nature Lovers
  • Dead End Kids
  • Natural Aruba
  • For My Children
  • Jesus Christ can you justify/just what's happening to me
  • We Disappear to Dance
  • Praise the rat-infested rooftop
  • We have had/stand ins
  • Yesterday while walking down/the avenue
  • He stood a tall silhouette of love
  • Your eyes like cups of wine
  • my thoughts are i love you
  • dark so dark
  • The night is beautiful
  • Caressing caresses
  • Subconsciously/I think of you
  • A Poem for Michael
  • America/an overdeveloped/animosity stamping out the dreams
  • Calmness hits the careless streets
  • Life Is a Two-Way Experience
  • Blind are we who cannot tell the/bitter from the sweet
  • In the sweetness of silent death
  • In the misty hollow of the morning
  • For My Grandpa
  • Abandoned
  • What uncaring creator on this earth
  • Carelessly
  • The corner coffee klatch begins
  • Gifts of America
  • He lay in the alley
  • Observations on a Subway Train
  • Yesterday
  • The night seems to/cry
  • They took away the/windmill
  • Acknowledgment
  • After the Rain
  • Don't tell me you don't understand
  • The silent city cries today
  • Agnew rushes into the waiting room
  • Cars screech, sirens roar with discontentment
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
ix, 59 p.
Isbn
9780030913044
Isbn Type
(Holt lib. ed.)
Lccn
79182781
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: Dust jacket; brown cloth over boards, spine stamped in black. Publisher's announcement laid-in. Gift of the publisher, 1972.
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)00483620
  • ucoclc483620
Label
A screaming whisper : poems, by Vanessa Howard ; photographs by J. Pinderhughes
Publication
Note
  • "A number of the poems in this book originally appeared in The voice of the children"--T.p. verso
  • Includes index of first lines
Contents
  • Monument in Black
  • Victims of Slavery
  • The New Math
  • i am frightened that/the flame of hate/will burn me
  • To the Nature Lovers
  • Dead End Kids
  • Natural Aruba
  • For My Children
  • Jesus Christ can you justify/just what's happening to me
  • We Disappear to Dance
  • Praise the rat-infested rooftop
  • We have had/stand ins
  • Yesterday while walking down/the avenue
  • He stood a tall silhouette of love
  • Your eyes like cups of wine
  • my thoughts are i love you
  • dark so dark
  • The night is beautiful
  • Caressing caresses
  • Subconsciously/I think of you
  • A Poem for Michael
  • America/an overdeveloped/animosity stamping out the dreams
  • Calmness hits the careless streets
  • Life Is a Two-Way Experience
  • Blind are we who cannot tell the/bitter from the sweet
  • In the sweetness of silent death
  • In the misty hollow of the morning
  • For My Grandpa
  • Abandoned
  • What uncaring creator on this earth
  • Carelessly
  • The corner coffee klatch begins
  • Gifts of America
  • He lay in the alley
  • Observations on a Subway Train
  • Yesterday
  • The night seems to/cry
  • They took away the/windmill
  • Acknowledgment
  • After the Rain
  • Don't tell me you don't understand
  • The silent city cries today
  • Agnew rushes into the waiting room
  • Cars screech, sirens roar with discontentment
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
ix, 59 p.
Isbn
9780030913044
Isbn Type
(Holt lib. ed.)
Lccn
79182781
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: Dust jacket; brown cloth over boards, spine stamped in black. Publisher's announcement laid-in. Gift of the publisher, 1972.
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)00483620
  • ucoclc483620

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