African American Poets

Author : Michael S. Harper,Anthony Walton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Dudley Randall
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780553275636

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The Black Poets by Dudley Randall Pdf

"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

Author : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781438134369

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African-American Poets by Harold Bloom Pdf

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.

Author : Belinda Rochelle
Publisher : Collins
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : MINN:31951002465474Z

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Invisible Poets by Joan R. Sherman Pdf

Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739166741

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Jazz Griots by Jean-Philippe Marcoux Pdf

To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, why do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book’s answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling.

Author : Howard Rambsy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Jean Wagner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.

Author : Yasser K. R. Aman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527520554

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Modern African American Poets by Yasser K. R. Aman Pdf

This book consists of eight chapters covering poets from the Harlem Renaissance until the present day. It considers the Harlem Renaissance poets Hughes and Cullen from new perspectives, with regards to two psychological types: self-acceptance and self-dejection. The first two chapters discuss Hughes’ and Cullen’s expression of race relations and the way they protest. Chapter three on Roscoe C. Jamison represents unheard voices, while the fourth chapter, focusing on Ai, analyzes multi-ethnic roots and dissects American society, highlighting the reasons for violence and sexual hunger. Chapter five on Nikky Finney, a representative of Affrilachian poetry and a political activist, focuses on different social and political issues. Chapters six and seven discuss the application of Dual Inheritance Theory on African American and Afro-German poetry. Chapter eight tackles the ongoing effort of redefining black womanhood, with specific emphasis on Morgan Parker.

Author : Joanne V. Gabbin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813918413

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The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin Pdf

Furious Flowering offers students, scholars, readers, and writers of African-American poetry a chance to take part in an unprecedented discussion of a complex literary culture.

Author : Timo Mueller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496817860

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The African American Sonnet by Timo Mueller Pdf

Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "First fight. Then fiddle." Yet few readers realize that these poems are part of a rich tradition that formed after the Civil War and comprises more than a thousand sonnets by African American poets. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, and Rita Dove all wrote sonnets. Based on extensive archival research, The African American Sonnet: A Literary History traces this forgotten tradition from the nineteenth century to the present. Timo Müller uses sonnets to open up fresh perspectives on African American literary history. He examines the struggle over the legacy of the Civil War, the trajectories of Harlem Renaissance protest, the tensions between folk art and transnational perspectives in the thirties, the vernacular modernism of the postwar period, the cultural nationalism of the Black Arts movement, and disruptive strategies of recent experimental poetry. In this book, Müller examines the inventive strategies African American poets devised to occupy and reshape a form overwhelmingly associated with Europe. In the tightly circumscribed space of sonnets, these poets mounted evocative challenges to the discursive and material boundaries they confronted.