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Presents a selection of poetry dedicated to individuals who were unafraid of trying to make changes or of going against the tide, with poems about friends, lovers, mother, the poet herself, and notable personalities
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The Drum
(for Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The drums...Pa-Rum...the rat-tat-tat...of drums...
The Pied Piper...after leading the rats...to death...took
the children...to dreams...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...
The big bass drums...the kettles roar...the sound of animal
flesh...resounding against the wood...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...
Kunta Kinte was making a drum...when he was captured
...Pa-Rum...
Thoreau listened...to a different drum...rat-tat-tat-Pa-
Rum...
King said just say...I was a Drum Major...for peace...
Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...rat-tat-tat Pa-rum...
Drums of triumph...Drums of pain...Drums of life...Funeral
drums...Marching drums...Drums that call...Pa-Rum
Pa-Rum...the Drums that call...rat-tat-tat...the Drums
are calling...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...rat-tat-tat Pa-Rum...
Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, mother, and professor, is a seven-time NAACP Image Award winner and the first recipient of the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, and holds the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, among many other honors. The author of twenty-eight books and a Grammy nominee for The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
The Drum
(for Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The drums...Pa-Rum...the rat-tat-tat...of drums...
The Pied Piper...after leading the rats...to death...took
the children...to dreams...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...
The big bass drums...the kettles roar...the sound of animal
flesh...resounding against the wood...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...
Kunta Kinte was making a drum...when he was captured
...Pa-Rum...
Thoreau listened...to a different drum...rat-tat-tat-Pa-
Rum...
King said just say...I was a Drum Major...for peace...
Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...rat-tat-tat Pa-rum...
Drums of triumph...Drums of pain...Drums of life...Funeral
drums...Marching drums...Drums that call...Pa-Rum
Pa-Rum...the Drums that call...rat-tat-tat...the Drums
are calling...Pa-Rum Pa-Rum...rat-tat-tat Pa-Rum...
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0688019064
- ISBN 13 9780688019068
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