Milton Brooks, 41, undertaker - John Reese, 70, ballplayer, janitor - Eleanor Hayden, 51, nanny - Tom Fisher, 38, blues singer, livery cabbie - Dennis Chapman, 40, laborer - C.C. Allen, 38, deacon - Henry Johnson, 39, mail carrier - Willie Arnold, 30, alto sax player - Terry Smith, 24, unemployed - Clara Brown's testimony, part II - Christopher Lomax, 60, retired - Junice Lomax, 23, unemployed - Hosea Liburd, 25, laborer - William Riley Pitts, 42, jazz artist - J. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a peopleĬlara Brown's testimony, part I - Mali Evans, 12, student - Macon R. Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more.
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