Various Artists

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work

Release date 2000

Tracklist

1
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
0:56
0:56
2
I, Too
0:37
0:37
3
The Atlanta Years (excerpt)
3:17
3:17
4
If We Must Die
1:07
1:07
5
St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd
1:00
1:00
6
The Tropics in New York
0:52
0:52
7
The Creation
4:23
4:23
8
We to America
0:38
0:38
9
Nocturne at Bethesda
3:31
3:31
10
Heritage
3:25
3:25
11
Dark Symphony
4:51
4:51
12
Ma Rainey
3:06
3:06
13
Strong Men
3:01
3:01
14
For My People
4:24
4:24
15
Kissie Lee
2:22
2:22
16
The Mother
2:28
2:28
17
Dream Montage: Tell Me / Good Morning / Harlem / Same in Blues / Comment on Curb
3:33
3:33
18
We Real Cool
0:25
0:25
19
Those Winter Sundays
0:52
0:52
20
Fredrick Douglass
0:56
0:56
21
Sepia Fashion Show
0:49
0:49
22
To a Man
1:03
1:03
23
Freedom Suite
2:32
2:32
24
Crusoe's Island
4:51
4:51
25
Dahomey
2:08
2:08
26
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
1:33
1:33
27
Run Nigger
1:12
1:12
28
Admonitions
1:06
1:06
29
Nikki-Rosa
1:01
1:01
30
A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
1:28
1:28
31
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
2:33
2:33
32
Rueben, Rueben
1:15
1:15
33
My House
0:36
0:36
34
Flight to Canada
1:12
1:12
35
Betty's Ball Blues
2:32
2:32
36
Wounded in the House of a Friend
1:48
1:48
37
Song No. 2
0:45
0:45
38
A Poem for Players
1:50
1:50
39
Muhammad Ali at the Ringside, 1985
6:09
6:09
40
Hard Rock Returns to Prison From the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
2:16
2:16
41
The Idea of Ancestry
3:08
3:08
42
Bang, Bang Outishly
1:28
1:28
43
Rhythim Blues
0:23
0:23
44
Shazam Doowah
0:50
0:50
45
The End of Civilization as We Know It
3:22
3:22
46
Cruelty
0:40
0:40
47
Lucy (Part 6)
1:46
1:46
48
Endangered Species List Blues
2:53
2:53
49
I Live for My Car
2:48
2:48
50
Nigger Rhythm Rhymes From the Blues Part of Town (Pt. 4)
1:10
1:10
51
Lester Leaps In
1:07
1:07
52
Poem for Magic
2:25
2:25
53
I Am She
0:24
0:24
54
Tuskegee Airfield
2:14
2:14
55
Facing It
1:09
1:09
56
Venus's-Flytraps
1:37
1:37
57
Rise Up Fallen Fighters (Okra Takes Up with a Rastafari Man / She Can't Hold Back / She Say Smilin')
2:47
2:47
58
A Poem to Thrill the NAACP; or, A Black Family Moves to the Suburbs
1:13
1:13
59
The Near-Johannesburg Boy
3:00
3:00
60
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
3:06
3:06
61
Helen
0:34
0:34
62
Martha and Helen
0:38
0:38
63
Martha and Helen
0:25
0:25
64
1962: My Brother Richard Returns From the Monastery
0:35
0:35
65
Shakespeare Say
1:43
1:43
66
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
1:31
1:31
67
Jamal's Lamentation
0:40
0:40
68
Self Portrait, 1988
0:31
0:31
69
Barbie's Little Sister
2:17
2:17
70
The Slaughter
2:16
2:16
71
Nocturne
1:06
1:06
72
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
6:25
6:25
73
Project Princess
2:03
2:03
74
Ohm
1:05
1:05
75
No Black Male Show
7:41
7:41

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