BLACK MAGIC: COLLECTED POETRY, 1961-1967

Table of Contents

Sabotage 1961-1963
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Three Modes of History and Culture
A Poem Welcoming Jonas Mekas to America
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand
Houdini
Citizen Cain
Letter to E. Franklin Frazier
The People Burning
Letter to Elijah Muhammad
Tight Rope
Kenyatta Listening to Mozart
Morning Purpose
Averroes' Tempo
After the Ball
Death Is Not As Natural As Some Of You Fags Seem To Think
Legacy (For Blues People)
Mise en Scene: Newark, 1967
The Success
The New World
Hegel
Leadbelly Gives An Autograph
The Burning General
Tone Poem (for Elvin Jones and Bob Thompson)
Square Business
Major Bowes' Diary
The People's Choice: The Dream Poems II
Cant
The Dream Poems III
Tone Row
Loku
On Out
History as Process
David Copperhead
The Visit
Gatsby's Theory of Aesthetics
Lately
All's Well (for E.R. & M.B.)
The Bronze Buckaroo (for Herb Jeffries)

Target Study 1963-1965
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Numbers, Letters
Young Soul
Confirmation
Witches and Devils
Friday
Here He Comes Again
I Don't Love You
Sky King
Travel Agent
Correction
The Penalty for Piracy
The Poisoned God
Dada Zodji
Will They Cry When You're Gone, You Bet
What Am I Offered
Cold Term II
Sad Cowboy
Blue Whitie
Ration
Premises Not Quite Condemned
A Poem for Oswald Spengler
Red Eye (for Calvin Hernton and Ishmael Reed)
Storage (after L. McL.)
Lowdown
A Western Lady
Corregidor
Third Avenue, Early Winter
Hands
Ready or Not
Western Front
Alone and Centred
Where is the Romantic Life?
20th Century Fox [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Poem [CHECK]
Reading and Weeping
Air
Poem for Religious Fanatics
Cold Term
Jitterbugs
Word from the Right Wing
Blank
Newshit
Ghosts
Song
I Am Speaking of Future Goodness and Social Philosophy
Lady Bug
Three Movements and a Coda
T.T. Jackson Sings
In One Battle
Song Form
Return of the Native
Everybody Out
Goodbye!
Black Bourgeoisie
A Poem for Black Hearts

Black Art 1965-1966
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SOS [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Black Art
For a Lady I Know
Poem for HalfWhite College Students
A School of Prayer [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Movie
Biography
The Racist
Spake Adventure
Evil Nigger Waits for Lightnin'
The Woman Thing
Red Light
American Ecstasy
Little Brown Jug
Attention Attention
Part of the Doctrine
W.W.
Camptown Ladies Sing Dis Song
Very Fine
Civil Rights Poem [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Labor and Management
The Deadly Eyes are Stars! [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
These Cats Rolling on a Cardboard Box [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Newark Later
Ka'Ba
The Spell
Beautiful Black Women [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
[untitled - "The penalty is death, for death"]
Lerve
Trespass into Spirit [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
For Tom Postell, Dead Blck Poet
Form is Emptiness
Caucasian Devachan
The Rainy Night I Went Away
Babylon Revisited [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Message from the NAACP
That Mighty Flight
Madness
Ballad of the Morning Streets
They Have Outposts (a poem for some turnedaround niggers)
I Said It
Bludoo Baby, Want Money, and Alligator Got It to Give
Five Vaather Divine Women Circling a Cadillac on the Last Day of the Year 1966
The Calling Together
Funeral Poem
Night
Stirling Street September (for Sylvia)
Note to America
Death is the Beginning of a New Form
For All Matter
Are Their Blues Songs in Russia?
Cops
Prettyditty
The Test
Vowels 2
Sacred Chant for the Return of Black Spirit and Power
The World is full of remarkable things (for little Bumi) [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Television Lovers Cannot Help Me
Bumi
From the Egyptian [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Black People: This is Our Destiny [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Part of the Doctrine [REPEATED FROM LAST SECTION?] [also in 'Black Art', 1967, Jihad]
Human to Spirit Humanism for Animals
The Black Man is Making New Gods
Tele/vision
Plenty
Karma
Indians
Election Day:2
Allegro con Rocks
Leroy
Eyes and Ears of the world
Sisters in the Fog
Race
Distant Hearts, come close/r, in the smash of the night
Planetary Exchange
Black People!

['Black Art', 1967, Jihad contains the poems marked above plus 'Live Niggers: Stop Bullshitting' and
'Salik' (reprinted in 1979 Selected Poetry, William Morrow]