We didn't know any gangsters / poems by Brian Gilmore ; copy editor, Susan Thornton Hobby.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilmore, Brian (Author)
Other Authors: Hobby, Susan Thornton (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Columbia, MD : Cherry Castle Publishing, [2014]
Subjects:
African Americans > Poetry.
African American poets.
Men > United States > Poetry.
African American men > Poetry.
African American men > Social conditions > Poetry.
Fathers > Poetry.
Fathers and sons > Poetry.
United States > Race relations > Poetry.
Families > United States > Social conditions > Poetry.
African American fathers > Poetry.
African American families > Poetry.
Coming of age > United States > Poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:82 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • [Section 1, Capable boys]
  • billy bathgate (for chico)
  • king of new york (for the mothers and fathers)
  • nosferatu
  • a soldier's story (for my father)
  • avalon (for aquila sr. & hazel)
  • make it plain (for my mother)
  • there was a time (for james brown)
  • watermelon man
  • the tonight show (for tony)
  • halloween
  • georgia avenue (for kenneth carroll)
  • [Section 2, Second lives]
  • 2001: a space odyssey
  • jaws
  • 'round midnight
  • animal house
  • purple rain (for g.j.)
  • a george holliday rodney king video (edited for television)
  • a george holliday rodney king video (director's cut)
  • a george holliday rodney king video (DVD version)
  • mississippi burning (for amy goodman & alan)
  • law and order #62
  • law and order #92
  • philadelphia (for d.j. renegade, ta-neshisi coates, darrell stover from landover, and the prison writers, lorton reformatory)
  • billy eckstine comes to washington, d.c. (for gaston neal)
  • the dutchman (for amiri baraka, at 70)
  • one flew over the cuckoo's nest (for all of them)
  • revolution (for my father)
  • new jersey drive (for r. dwayne betts)
  • nothing but a man
  • the godfather (for adanya, 18 months)
  • the godfather II (for lirit guy, at 2)
  • the godfather III (for pannonica, at 6)
  • the art of romare bearden
  • diamonds are forever.