TY - BOOK AU - Beatty,Paul TI - Joker, joker, deuce T2 - Penguin poets SN - 9780140587234 AV - PS3552.E19 U1 - 811/.54 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - American poetry KW - African American authors KW - African Americans KW - Poetry KW - City and town life KW - American poetry ; African American authors KW - Collections N1 - "A Penguin original"--Label on cover N2 - At ease --Why that Abbott and Costello vaudeville mess never worked with black people --That's not in my job description --Dib dab --Annotation of a funky breakdown --No tag backs --Sitting on other people's cars --Verbal mugging --About the author --Quote unquote --Tap tap on Africa --Desert boots --Daryl Patterson and Bugs Bunny's black nationalist cheerleading camp --What a pity, what a shame --Two pink dots? You positive? --Mickey Mouse build a house --Independent study --Big bowls of cereal --Stall me out; A collection of poems about Afro-Americans and their place in the American society. The subjects range from a eulogy of John Brown to criticism of a poet who sells out to the white establishment UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1701/93031264-b.html UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1701/93031264-d.html ER -