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Learn about James Baldwin, a novelist, essayist, and social critic who wrote about race, identity, and humanity. Read his poems and essays on the Poetry Foundation website.
A poem by James Baldwin about the paradox of giving and love, inspired by his experience of working with a charity for children in the Caribbean. The poem explores the themes of charity, generosity, and madness, and the speaker's own struggles with these issues.
- Amen
- Untitled
- Staggerlee Wonders
- Le Sporting-Club de Monte Carlo
- Munich, Winter 1973
- The Giver
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No, I don’t feel death coming. I feel death going: having thrown up his hands, for the moment. I feel like I know him better than I did. Those arms held me, for a while, and, when we meet again, there will be that secret knowledge between us. “Amen” is a powerful reflection on love’s transformative potential and its ability to transcend the boundar...
Lord, when you send the rain think about it, please, a little? Do not get carried away by the sound of falling water, the marvelous light on the falling water. I am beneath that water. It falls with great force and the light Blinds me to the light. Baldwin’s “Untitled” works often capture moments of introspection and candid expressions of the self....
I always wonder what they think the n*ggers are doing while they, the pink and alabaster pragmatists, are containing Russia and defining and re-defining and re-aligning China, nobly restraining themselves, meanwhile, from blowing up that earth which they have already blasphemed into dung: the gentle, wide-eyed, cheerful ladies, and their men, nosta...
The lady is a tramp a camp a lamp The lady is a sight a might a light the lady devastated an alley or two reverberated through the valley which leads to me, and you the lady is the apple of God’s eye: He’s cool enough about it but He tends to strut a little when she passes by the lady is a wonder daughter of the thunder smashing cages legistlating ...
In a strange house, a strange bed in a strange town, a very strange me is waiting for you. Now it is very early in the morning. The silence is loud. The baby is walking about with his foaming bottle, making strange sounds and deciding, after all, to be my friend. You arrive tonight. How dull time is! How empty—and yet, since I am sitting here, lyin...
If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to see in the faces that surrounded me. Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted, what gift would give them the gift to be gifted? The giver is no less adrift than those who are clamouring for the gift. If they cannot claim it, if it is ...
Read five poems by James Baldwin, an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His poems explore racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, especially in America.
Read six poems by James Baldwin, an American writer who explored racial, sexual, and class issues in his essays, novels, and plays. Learn more about his life, works, and quotes on this web page.
A personal and poetic tribute to the American writer James Baldwin, who was known for his essays, novels, and poetry. The article explores his themes of love, history, and social justice, and his use of language and imagery to express his voice and vision. It also shares some of his poems and his influence on the author.
Explore the poetry and prose of James Baldwin, a celebrated writer and activist who explored themes of race, sexuality, and identity. Read his poems, such as Untitled, from Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems.
Apr 1, 2014 · This new collection presents James Baldwin the poet, including all nineteen poems from Jimmy’s Blues, as well as all the poems from a limited-edition volume called Gypsy, of which only 325 copies...
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