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• ISBN: 0688050212
• ISBN: 9780688050214
• Physical Description: xviii, 69 pages. : illustrations. ; 22 cm
• Publisher: New York : Morrow, 1972.

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[pt. I.] The rooms inside : Legacies ; Mothers ; A poem for Carol (may she always wear red ribbons) ; A fishy poem ; Winter poem ; Conversation ; Rituals ; Poem for Stacia ; The world is not a pleasant place to be ; The only song I'm singing ; The butterfly ; I remember ; A certain peace ; When I nap ; Mixed media ; Just a New York poem ; [Untitled] ; The wonder woman (a new dream--for Stevie Wonder) ; Categories ; Straight talk ; Scrapbooks ; When I die ; [Untitled] (for Margaret Danner) -- [pt. II.] The rooms outside : My tower (for Barb and Anthony) ; Poem (for Nina) ; Africa I ; Africa II ; They clapped ; Poem (for Anna Hedgeman and Alfreda Duster) ; Atrocities ; Nothing makes sense ; I laughed when I wrote it (don't you think it's funny?) ; On seeing black journal and watching nine Negro leaders "give aid and comfort to the enemy" to quote Richard Nixon ; And another thing ; We ; My house.

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Poetry.