
Inscribing My Name
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Selected poems from a respected African American poet
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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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Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Author's Note
- Oedipus to Antigone
- Antigone I
- Antigone II
- Antigone III
- Antigone IV
- Antigone V
- Antigone VI
- Antigone VII
- Antigone VIII
- Antigone IX
- Antigone X
- Antigone XI
- Antigone XII
- Antigone XIII
- Antigone XIV
- Antigone XV
- Antigone XVI
- Antigone XVII
- Antigone XVIII
- Antigone XIX
- Antigone XX
- Antigone XXI
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 1
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 2
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 3
- Contrapuntal Pieces for Central Park West No. 4
- Contrapuntal No. 5
- Lines toward a Formal Feeling
- Contrapuntal No. 6
- Contrapuntal No. 7
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 8
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 9
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 10
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 11
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 12
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 13
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 14
- Contrapuntal Piece No. 15
- Contrapuntal Piece without Number
- Second Untitled Contrapuntal
- Ancient Elements (Third Contrapuntal without Number)
- So Greatly Wrought (Fourth Contrapuntal without Number)
- New York the Nine Million
- The Deadwood Dick Poems
- American Confessional
- Coyote
- W. Poem
- W. Poem II
- W. Poem II (a)
- W. Poem III
- W. Poem IV (a)
- W. Poem IV (b)
- W. Poem V
- W. Poem VI
- Prayer 1
- Prayer 2
- Prayer 3
- Prayer 4
- Prayer 5
- Prayer 6
- Prayer 7
- Prayer 8
- Prayer 9
- Prayer 10
- Prayer 11
- Prayer 12
- Prayer 13
- Prayer 14
- The Forms of Silence
- Showering I
- Showering II
- Dressing
- Remembering Hyde Park
- Phone Message Found on a John Wall
- The New Year Accomplished
- Memory Poem for the New Year
- The Colored Section of the Theatre
- Here
- The Spoils of the Day
- Sassy Music
- In Memory of Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
- Out of the Dead Bones
- The Serendipitous Cat
- Ginkgo Trees
- Tight Rope Walking the Air
- My Mother at the End of Her Days
- You Shall Skip through This Museum: Life
- Ten Variations on a Walk
- Return from Walking
- The Old Graves
- Quietly, Quietly, They Remembered Those Who Died
- When You Are Old Enough
- Poem
- Walking the Old Ground
- Quietly
- Dawn
- Dürer
- A Negro Soldier's Viet Nam Diary
- Of Love, of War
- O Samurai
- Death Is a Departure in Love
- Mourning Words for Murder by One's Own Hand
- Sestina: Lines to an Unknown Suicide
- Ballad of a Fire
- Ballad
- Sonnet: Watch How a Bird Flies
- Sonnet: The Expense of Memory
- Once There Was a Stoned Fox
- Moses
- Whiskey Is a Paradox
- I Sing of an Earth That Is Yet Astonishing
- Six Variations on the Theme of Rain
- Snow
- November 1
- November 2
- November 3
- Address to Mr. Charlie
- I Dream You Harlem
- The Exorcism
- The Lady Has Her Say
- Grand Central Station
- Safe and Sound
- Dark Pronouncements
- Playing until Forgetfulness Comes
- Approaching the New Year in Pecs
- The Washerwoman's Fire
- Walker Evans's "Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife, 1936"
- Walker Evans's "Alabama Tenant Farmer, 1936"
- A Childhood Memory
- Saturday Afternoon
- Penny Postcard
- Early Warnings
- Memory Is the Braille the Wind Leaves
- Csontvary Tivadar's "Old Woman Peeling an Apple"
- Instructions
- Sex Education
- Nighthawks
- American Gothic
- The Face's Spectrum
- For the Faithful
- The Mother of the Neighborhood
- The Anchor of Rainbows
- Dreaming of the South in a Single Breath
- The Piano Teacher's Living Room
- Sharecropper
- Sleeping Lovers
- Advertisement
- Greasy Sunshine
- Rwanda # 1
- Rwanda # 2
- Rwanda # 3
- Rwanda # 4
- Rwanda # 5
- Rwanda # 6
- Rwanda # 7
- Rwanda # 8
- Rwanda # 9
- Rwanda # 10
- Defective Villanelle
- Five Variations of Silence
- Drive-by Deaths
- Atlanta
- Black Jazz
- Woman with Dark Eyes
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