The Poetry Of Black America
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Author | : Michael S. Harper |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 030776513X |
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.
Author | : Catherine Clinton |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395895993 |
A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.
Author | : Arnold Adoff |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0060200898 |
Uncorrected bound galleys of the poems, lacking the introduction and other matter.
Author | : Joan R. Sherman |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486111458 |
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.
Author | : Nikki Giovanni |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1402221118 |
Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
Author | : Camille T. Dungy |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0820334316 |
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
Author | : Tony Medina |
Publisher | : Tarcher |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry
Author | : Arnold Adoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1995-08-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
"Adoff addresses his poetry to modern, urban teens in a gritty, hip-hop style. He manages to create poetry from the universal concerns of love and loneliness, the specific teen concerns of acne and braces, and unpleasant realities like selling and taking drugs."--Booklist. "Telling, recognizable, and readable....Intriguing."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
Author | : Belinda Rochelle |
Publisher | : Collins |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
Author | : Keith Tuma |
Publisher | : Miami University Press Poetry |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Poetry. African American Studies. RAINBOW DARKNESS gathers poems by a range of established and newer African American poets including Jeff Allen, Wanda Coleman, C. S. Giscombe, Terrance Hayes, Kim Hunter, Honoree Jeffers, Nathaniel Mackey, Harryette Mullen, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Reginald Shepherd, Timothy Siebles, Evie Shockley, Lorenzo Thomas, Natasha Trethewey, Anthony Walton, Crystal Williams, and Tyrone Williams, and essays by Herman Beavers, Aldon Nielsen, Kathy Lou Schultz, Evie Shockley, and Lorenzo Thomas. The collection grew from poems and talks presented at the Marjorie Cook Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry held at Miami University in September 2003. The anthology hopes to extend the conversations that took place at the conference to another, larger audience.