A Hard Summation: poems

Introduction by Enzo Silon Surin

The Kidnappers

A Ship's Log

In Charleston, the Slave Market

Night Song for Missy

The Pearl and Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harvesting the Saints

Migration, the Big Cities

Black Star Line, 1925

Butterbeans and Susie, a Depression Duet

Moms Mabley Runs a Boston at the Bid Whist Table in North Philly, 1945

The Little Rock

After Civil Rights, Disaster Came

On the Passing Heaven Sutton

Notes

About the Author.