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BOOK REVIEW GOW porch blood spurting from the open wound ...... the wind took his breath & cast it back into the vermilion pound of non violence A moving tribute is paid to Rosa Parks by Sam Cornish in his poem entitled "Montgomery." It was her refusal to follow Jim Crow regulations that led to the boycotting of buses in Alabama and eventual reversals of procedure. Further acclaim is given the two black athletes at the Olympics who struck a dramatic pose that shook the world of sports. Michael Harper recaptures this image in "Ode to Tenochtitlan": Socks and gloves the medal of honor ablaze in twin fists of two men blackened in the imperial fires; a style so resilient and chromatic the pure reeds of their bodies bulge through metric distances in their special rhythms. But all is not praise for members of the race. Some leaders, like Roy Wilkins, come under sharp attack for condescending attitudes toward whites. Dionne Warwick is castigated for "ENTERTAINING TROOPS! Aboard the U.S.S Enterprise." Among the younger poets we find poems of introspection. Nikki Giovanni's "Adulthood" and William Harris's "I, Satan" weigh and measure the black experience. Themes of social action are also prevalent-and it is surprising to find militant views ably expressed by 397
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