Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring

Front Matter

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, v.6 no.2, Spring, 1975

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring

    Contents

    Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers

    • Robert Hayden

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 1–2

    The First Act of Liberation Is to Destroy One's Cage

    • Michael S. Harper

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 1–1

    Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

    • Alice Walker

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 2–3

    Butterfly Piece

    • Robert Hayden

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 3–3

    Leaving Eden

    • Ralph A. Dickey

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 3–3

    The City

    • Raymond R. Patterson

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 4–4

    The Father

    • Gayl Jones

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 4–4

    Fifteen

    • Shirley Williams

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 5–5

    Soft Kid

    • Waring Cuney

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 5–5

    Dizz on TV

    • Alvin Aubert

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 6–6

    The Return of Julian the Apostate to Rome

    • Ishmael Reed

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 6–7

    Alice

    • Michael S. Harper

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 7–8

    Finale

    • Ann duCille

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 9–9

    Parish Doctor

    • Sterling A. Brown

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 9–10

    To John Oliver Killens in 1974

    • Gwendolyn Brooks

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 10–11

    Deep Song

    • Gayl Jones

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 11–11

    The Old Women of Paris

    • Dudley Randall

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 12–13

    The Point of the Western Pen

    • Etheridge Knight

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 12–12

    Jericho

    • Ai

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 13–13

    Soul Soul Super Bowl

    • George Barlow

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 13–15

    Power

    • Audre Lorde

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 16–17

    Ungod at the Font of the Blues

    • Anthony McNeill

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 17–18

    To All Brothers: From All Sisters

    • Sonia Sanchez

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 18–19

    Words

    • Raymond R. Patterson

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 18–18

    Open

    • Jerry W. Ward

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 19–20

    Lébé

    • Jay Wright

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 20–21

    Homage to My Hair

    • Lucille Clifton

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 22–22

    This Is C. T. R. Reed

    • Mari Evans

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 22–22

    Dust

    • Everett Hoagland

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 23–24

    From "The Book of Shine, XII"

    • Calvin Forbes

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 23–23

    He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America

    • Primus St. John

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 24–25

    July 4, 1974

    • June Jordan

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 24–24

    For Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1972

    • Margaret Walker

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 25–26

    Two Egyptian Portrait Masks: Nefert-iti; Akhenaten

    • Robert Hayden

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 26–27

    Riding Back on a 30-Year-Old Tractor after Pulling out the Car I Drove into a Ditch, Watching Stars and Lightning from the Northwest

    • Philip Bryant

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 27–28

    Another Note for a Future Memory

    • Alvin Aubert

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 28–29

    Homage to My Hips

    • Lucille Clifton

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 28–28

    Providence, Rhode Island

    • Al Young

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 29–30

    Mr. Booker T.

    • James W. Blake

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 30–31

    Port Arthur

    • Shirley Williams

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 31–32

    Boston

    • George Buggs

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 32–34

    Boston, 5:00 a.m.: 11/74

    • Etheridge Knight

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 34–34

    The Missionaries

    • Samuel Allen

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 34–35

    Christ's Bracero

      Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 35–36

      In an Office of English

      • Ron Welburn

      Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 36–37

      Silent Canto

      • Horace Coleman

      Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 36–36

      The Silent Songwriter of Our Apocalypse

      • Reginald Lockett

      Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 37–38

      On a New York Street Corner: Canvas #14

      • Quincy Troupe

      Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 38–39

      Richmond Barthé: "Meeting in Lyon"

      • Melvin Dixon

      Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 1975 • Spring • 39–40