One More River to Cross : The Selected Poetry of John Beecher

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Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Newsouth Inc
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Table of Contents

Poetry for Survival 7(6)
John Beecher
Foreword 13(4)
Studs Terkel
Introduction 17(6)
Steven Ford Brown
Two Talks to the American People
23(44)
And I Will Be Heard
25(23)
Think It Over, America
48(19)
Poems, 1924--1940
67(32)
Report to the Stockholders
69(3)
A Million Days, a Million Dollars
72(3)
13 Hour Night Shift
75(1)
Big Boy
75(2)
White-Eye
77(1)
Brickroller
78(1)
Old John the Melter
79(1)
Run of the Mine
80(2)
The Best Steel in the World
82(2)
Ensley, Alabama: 1932
84(1)
Beaufort Tides
85(1)
Appalachian Landscape
86(1)
Like Judas Wasn't It?
87(5)
The Odyssey of Thomas Benjamin Harrison Higgenbottom
92(5)
Altogether Singing
97(2)
In Egypt Land, A Narrative Poem, 1940
99(20)
Poems, 1941--1944
119(70)
News Item
121(2)
The Face You Have Seen
123(2)
Freedom the Word
125(5)
Here I Stand
130(31)
We Want More Say
161(3)
After Eighty Years
164(13)
Josiah Turnbull Took No Part in Politics
177(2)
We Are the Americans
179(4)
Their Blood Cries Out
183(3)
White Foam Breaking
186(3)
Poems, 1955--1960
189(16)
The Iron Maiden
191(1)
Screened
192(3)
Climate of Fear
195(2)
The Better Sort of People
197(1)
Bodega Head
198(1)
Dragonfly
199(1)
Inquest
200(1)
Hanging Gardens of Zion
201(1)
The Master of Yellow Plum Mountain
202(3)
Poems, 1961--1974
205(45)
Wisdom of the Abbot Macarius I
207(1)
Engagement at the Salt Fork
208(2)
The Seed of Fire
210(1)
Undesirables
211(1)
Free World Notes
212(1)
Yours in the Bonds
213(2)
Just Peanuts
215(3)
To Live and Die In Dixie
218(5)
You Kidding or Something White Folks?
223(1)
The Camaldolese Come to Big Sur
224(1)
Four Haiku for Peter
224(1)
One More River to Cross
225(3)
Escort for a President
228(1)
A Commemorative Ode
229(4)
Woke Up this Morning with My Mind Set on Freedom
233(1)
The Convict Mines
234(1)
If I Forget Thee, O Birmingham!
235(1)
Georgia Scene: 1964
236(1)
Kid Punch
237(1)
Black and White Together
238(1)
As Good As Gold
239(2)
Pray for War
241(1)
The ChautauQua
242(4)
A Literary Memoir: 1939
246(1)
Our Lady of the Snow
247(1)
In Communication with the Enemy
248(1)
A Lucky Night in 1920
249(1)
A Humble Petition to the President of Harvard
250

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