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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work
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A one-of-a-kind 2-CD set gathering over 70 poems read, sounded, or performed by the best and the brightest African-American poets of the 20th century. The featured works present the important writers and the great historic movements in black literature and culture from the Harlem Renaissance to hip-hop, from W.E.B DuBois and Maya Angelou to Gil Scott-Heron and Public Enemy. Most of the readings are previously unreleased, and several were recorded by the original authors specifically for this collection.
Selection # 78012
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TRACK LIST - Click song title to listen to a sample
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers - Langston Hughes- I, Too - Langston Hughes
- The Atlanta Years (Excerpt) - W.E.B. DuBois
- If We Must Die - Claude McKay
- St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd - Claude McKay
- The Tropics In New York - Claude McKay
- The Creation - James Weldon Johnson
- We To America - James Weldon Johnson
- Nocturne At Bethesda - Arna Bontemps
- Heritage - Countee Cullen
- Dark Symphony - Melvin B. Tolson
- Ma Rainey - Sterling A. Brown
- Strong Men - Sterling A. Brown
- For My People - Margaret Walker
- Kissie Lee - Margaret Walker
- The Mother - Gwendolyn Brooks
- Dream Montage: Tell Me; Good Morning; Harlem (2); Same In Blues; Comment On Curb - Langston Hughes
- We Real Cool - Gwendolyn Brooks
- Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden
- Frederick Douglass - Robert Hayden
- Sepia Fashion Show - Maya Angelou
- To A Man - Maya Angelou
- Freedom Suite (For Sonny Rollins And Franz Kline) - Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones)
- Crusoe's Island - Derek Walcott
- Dahomey - Audre Lorde
- In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. - June Jordan
- Run Nigger - The Last Poets
- Admonitions - Lucille Clifton
- Nikki-Rosa - Nikki Giovanni
- A Dance For Militant Dilettantes - Al Young
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane - Michael S. Harper
- Rueben, Rueben - Michael S. Harper
- My House - Nikki Giovanni
- Flight To Canada - Ishmael Reed
- Betty's Ball Blues - Ishmael Reed
- Wounded In The House Of A Friend (Set. No. 2) - Sonia Sanchez
- Song No. 2 - Sonia Sanchez
- A Poem For Player - Al Young
- Muhammad Ali At The Ringside, 1985 - Wole Soyinka
- Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane - Etheridge Knight
- The Idea Of Ancestry - Etheridge Knight
- Bang, Bang Outishly - Amiri Baraka
- Rhythim Blues - Amiri Baraka
- Shazam Doowah - Amiri Baraka
- The End Of Civilization As We Know It - Colleen J. McElroy
- Cruelty - Lucille Clifton
- lucy (part 6) - Lucille Clifton
- Endangered Species List Blues - Jayne Cortez with The Firespitter Band
- I Live For My Car - Wanda Coleman
- Nigger Rhythm Rhymes From The Blues Part Of Town (Pt. 4) - Wanda Coleman
- Lester Leaps In - Al Young
- Poem For Magic - Quincy Troupe
- I Am She - Nikki Giovanni
- Tuskegee Airfield - Marilyn Nelson Waniek
- Facing It - Yusef Komunyakaa
- Venus's-flytraps - Yusef Komunyakaa
- Rise Up Fallen Fighters (Okra Takes Up With A Rastafari Man/She Can't Hold Back/She Say Smilin) - Ntozake Shange
- A Poem To Thrill The NAACP, Or A Black Family Moves To The Suburbs - Mbembe Milton Smith
- The Near-Johannesburg Boy - Gwendolyn Brooks
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
- Helen - E. Ethelbert Miller
- Helen And Martha - E. Ethelbert Miller
- Martha And Helen - E. Ethelbert Miller
- 1962: My Brother Richard Returns From The Monastery - E. Ethelbert Miller
- Shakespeare Say - Rita Dove
- After Reading Mickey In The Night Kitchen For The Third Time Before Bed - Rita Dove
- Jamal's Lamentation - Rueben Jackson
- Self Portrait, 1988 - Rueben Jackson
- Barbie's Little Sister - Allison Joseph
- The Slaughter - Kevin Young
- Nocturne - Anthony Butts
- Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos - Public Enemy
- Project Princess - Tracie Morris
- Ohm - Saul Stacey Williams
- No Black Male Show - Carl Hancock Rux
