African American Poetry

Author : Michael S. Harper,Anthony Walton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307765130

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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Michael S. Harper,Anthony Walton Pdf

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 : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780820334318

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Black Nature by Camille T. Dungy Pdf

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 : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035478

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A History of African American Poetry by Lauri Ramey Pdf

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486111452

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African-American Poetry by Joan R. Sherman Pdf

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 : Belinda Rochelle
Publisher : Collins
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015055466315

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Words with Wings by Belinda Rochelle Pdf

Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395895995

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I, Too, Sing America by Catherine Clinton Pdf

A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.

Author : Jerry Washington Ward
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0451628640

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Trouble the Water by Jerry Washington Ward Pdf

The haunting refrain of the anonymous spiritual "Were You Dere?," the classic rhymes of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Bury Me in a Free Land," the jazz beat of Maya Angelou's "Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition," and the exquisite balance of Etheridge Knight's haikus-the entire rich and varied tradition of African-American poetry appears in this superb anthology, unified throughout by the authenticity of experiences wrung straight from the soul.Trouble the Water, the first collection to cover close to 300 years of poetic achievement in 400 important works by African-American writers, features women as half the contributors and includes nearly 50 poems from the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : Ashley Bryan
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0756903572

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Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan Pdf

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a line from a poem by different African American poets, describing an aspect of the black experience.

Author : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739166741

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Jazz Griots by Jean-Philippe Marcoux Pdf

This study is about how four representative African American poets in the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra’s David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement’s Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of African griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and Black History, and in so doing narrate, using jazz as meta-language, genealogies, etymologies, cultural legacies, and Black (hi)stories. In intersecting and complementary ways, Hughes, Henderson, Sanchez, and Baraka fashioned their griotism from theorizations of artistry as political engagement, and, in turn, formulated a Black aesthetic based on jazz performativity –a series of jazz-infused iterations that form a complex pattern of literary, musical, historical, and political moments in constant cross-fertilizing dialogues with one another. This form of poetic call-and-response is essential for it allows the possibility of intergenerational dialogues between poets and musicians as well as dialogical potential between song and politics, between Africa and Black America, within the poems. More importantly, these jazz dialogisms underline the construction of the Black Aesthetic as conceptualized respectively by the griotism of Hughes, of Henderson, and of Sanchez and Baraka.

Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : MINN:31951002465474Z

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Invisible Poets by Joan R. Sherman Pdf

Author : Professor Gordon E Thompson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472430601

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Black Music, Black Poetry by Professor Gordon E Thompson Pdf

Black Music, Black Poetry offers readers a fuller appreciation of the diversity of approaches to reading black American poetry. It does so by linking a diverse body of poetry to musical genres that range from the spirituals to contemporary jazz. The poetry of familiar figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and less well-known poets like Harryette Mullen or the lyricist to Pharaoh Sanders, Amos Leon Thomas, is scrutinized in relation to a musical tradition contemporaneous with the lifetime of each poet. Black music is considered the strongest representation of black American communal consciousness; and black poetry, by drawing upon such a musical legacy, lays claim to a powerful and enduring black aesthetic. The contributors to this volume take on issues of black cultural authenticity, of musical imitation, and of poetic performance as displayed in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Nathaniel Mackey, Jayne Cortez, Harryette Mullen, and Amos Leon Thomas. Taken together, these essays offer a rich examination of the breath of black poetry and the ties it has to the rhythms and forms of black music and the influence of black music on black poetic practice.

Author : Howard Rambsy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472035687

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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy Pdf

Devoted chiefly to the period from 1965-1976.

Author : Tony Medina
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015040179445

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Catch the Fire!!! by Tony Medina Pdf

A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry

Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252062469

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African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century by Joan R. Sherman Pdf

Afro-Americans of the nineteenth century are the invisible poets of our national literature. This anthology brings together 171 poems by 35 poets, from the best known to the unknown, in one volume.

Author : Jean Wagner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252003411

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Black Poets of the United States by Jean Wagner Pdf

Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.