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

Album by Various Artists

PoetrySpoken Word

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers
    0:56
  2. 2.
    I, Too
    0:37
  3. 3.
    The Atlanta Years (excerpt)
    3:17
  4. 4.
    If We Must Die
    1:07
  5. 5.
    St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd
    1:00
  6. 6.
    The Tropics in New York
    0:52
  7. 7.
    The Creation
    4:23
  8. 8.
    We to America
    0:38
  9. 9.
    Nocturne at Bethesda
    3:31
  10. 10.
    Heritage
    3:25
  11. 11.
    Dark Symphony
    4:51
  12. 12.
    Ma Rainey
    3:06
  13. 13.
    Strong Men
    3:01
  14. 14.
    For My People
    4:24
  15. 15.
    Kissie Lee
    2:22
  16. 16.
    The Mother
    2:28
  17. 17.
    Dream Montage: Tell Me / Good Morning / Harlem / Same in Blues / Comment on Curb
    3:33
  18. 18.
    We Real Cool
    0:25
  19. 19.
    Those Winter Sundays
    0:52
  20. 20.
    Fredrick Douglass
    0:56
  21. 21.
    Sepia Fashion Show
    0:49
  22. 22.
    To a Man
    1:03
  23. 23.
    Freedom Suite
    2:32
  24. 24.
    Crusoe's Island
    4:51
  25. 25.
    Dahomey
    2:08
  26. 26.
    In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
    1:33
  27. 27.
    Run Nigger
    1:12
  28. 28.
    Admonitions
    1:06
  29. 29.
    Nikki-Rosa
    1:01
  30. 30.
    A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
    1:28
  31. 31.
    Dear John, Dear Coltrane
    2:33
  32. 32.
    Rueben, Rueben
    1:15
  33. 33.
    My House
    0:36
  34. 34.
    Flight to Canada
    1:12
  35. 35.
    Betty's Ball Blues
    2:32
  36. 36.
    Wounded in the House of a Friend
    1:48
  37. 37.
    Song No. 2
    0:45
  38. 38.
    A Poem for Players
    1:50

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Muhammad Ali at the Ringside, 1985
    6:09
  2. 2.
    Hard Rock Returns to Prison From the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
    2:16
  3. 3.
    The Idea of Ancestry
    3:08
  4. 4.
    Bang, Bang Outishly
    1:28
  5. 5.
    Rhythim Blues
    0:23
  6. 6.
    Shazam Doowah
    0:50
  7. 7.
    The End of Civilization as We Know It
    3:22
  8. 8.
    Cruelty
    0:40
  9. 9.
    Lucy (Part 6)
    1:46
  10. 10.
    Endangered Species List Blues
    2:53
  11. 11.
    I Live for My Car
    2:48
  12. 12.
    Nigger Rhythm Rhymes From the Blues Part of Town (Pt. 4)
    1:10
  13. 13.
    Lester Leaps In
    1:07
  14. 14.
    Poem for Magic
    2:25
  15. 15.
    I Am She
    0:24
  16. 16.
    Tuskegee Airfield
    2:14
  17. 17.
    Facing It
    1:09
  18. 18.
    Venus's-Flytraps
    1:37
  19. 19.
    Rise Up Fallen Fighters (Okra Takes Up with a Rastafari Man / She Can't Hold Back / She Say Smilin')
    2:47
  20. 20.
    A Poem to Thrill the NAACP; or, A Black Family Moves to the Suburbs
    1:13
  21. 21.
    The Near-Johannesburg Boy
    3:00
  22. 22.
    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    3:06
  23. 23.
    Helen
    0:34
  24. 24.
    Helen and Martha
    0:38
  25. 25.
    Martha and Helen
    0:25
  26. 26.
    1962: My Brother Richard Returns From the Monastery
    0:35
  27. 27.
    Shakespeare Say
    1:43
  28. 28.
    After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
    1:31
  29. 29.
    Jamal's Lamentation
    0:40
  30. 30.
    Self Portrait, 1988
    0:31
  31. 31.
    Barbie's Little Sister
    2:17
  32. 32.
    The Slaughter
    2:16
  33. 33.
    Nocturne
    1:06
  34. 34.
    Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
    6:25
  35. 35.
    Project Princess
    2:03
  36. 36.
    Ohm
    1:05
  37. 37.
    No Black Male Show
    7:41

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