Author: Belinda RochellePublisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
Words with Wings
Author: Belinda RochellePublisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
Author: Michael S. HarperPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030776513X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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.
Black Nature
Author: Camille T. DungyPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334316
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
African-American Poetry
Author: Joan R. ShermanPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111458
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
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.
Invisible Poets
Author: Joan R. ShermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Black Poets
Author: Dudley RandallPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553275631
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall
I, Too, Sing America
Author: Catherine ClintonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395895993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.
A History of African American Poetry
Author: Lauri RameyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
Black Poets of the United States
Author: Jean WagnerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252003417
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
African-American Poets
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438134363
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This volume;examines contemporary African-American poets from the well-known writers of the late 20th century to the newly established and emerging voices of today.