Library Catalog

xxxiii, 403 pages ; 21 cm

text file

"A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-398).

An anthology representing more than two hundred years of African American creative poetic endeavors features the work of fifty-two poets.

Jupitor Hammon -- Benjamin Banneker -- Phillis Wheatley -- George Moses Horton -- George Boyer Vashon -- James Monroe Whitfield -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Joseph Seaman Cotter, Sr. -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Anne Spencer -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Claude McKay -- Jean Toomer -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Sterling A. Brown -- Gwendolyn Bennett -- Langston Hughes -- Countee Cullen -- Robert Hayden -- Margaret Walker -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Bob Kaufman -- Raymond Patterson -- Derek Walcott -- Etheridge Knight -- Amiri Baraka -- Audre Lorde -- Sonia Sanchez.

Lucille Clifton -- Jay Wright -- Michael S. Harper -- Ishmael Reed -- Al Young -- Toi Derricotte -- Haki Madhubuti -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Marilyn Nelson -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Gayl Jones -- C.S. Giscombe -- Rita Dove -- Thylias Moss -- Cornelius Eady -- Carl Phillips -- Anthony Walton -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Reginald Shepherd.

Description based on print version record.

American poetry -- African American authors.

African Americans -- Poetry.

Electronic books.

Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016.

Walton, Anthony, 1960-

OverDrive, Inc.

Original (DLC) 99039428 (OCoLC)41932556

9780307765130 (electronic bk.)

030776513X (electronic bk.)