Author : A. A. Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0985781211
Collected Poems
A. A. Stephens
The Poems 1958 1998
The Poems 1958 1998 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Poems 1958 1998 book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Poems, 1958-1998
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo
Author : John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : UOM:39015060030882
The Poems, 1958-1998 by John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo Pdf
Collected Poems, 1958-1998
Edmund Skellings
Author : Edmund Skellings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0813016061
Collected Poems, 1958-1998 by Edmund Skellings Pdf
This is a collection of poems, and includes a reading on disc of 50 of them. There is also a foreword by Donald Kaufmann discussing Edmund Skellings major themes and purposes.
Configurations
Clarence Major
Author : Clarence Major
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556590900
Configurations by Clarence Major Pdf
This bluesy, meticulously envisioned collection establishes Major as an important voice in American poetry.
Renewals
John Idris Jones
Author : John Idris Jones
Publisher : Conybeare Pub.
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Cardiff (Wales)
ISBN : 0953575101
Renewals by John Idris Jones Pdf
International Who's Who in Poetry 2004
Europa Publications
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1857431782
International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 by Europa Publications Pdf
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Jazz Poems
Kevin Young
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400042517
Jazz Poems by Kevin Young Pdf
Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force—one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz’s great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration.
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
Europa Publications
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1787 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857432695
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 by Europa Publications Pdf
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Translating Jazz Into Poetry
Erik Redling
Author : Erik Redling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110339017
Translating Jazz Into Poetry by Erik Redling Pdf
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
Black Writing from Chicago
Richard Guzman
Author : Richard Guzman
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 080932704X
Black Writing from Chicago by Richard Guzman Pdf
Ranging from 1861 to the present day, an anthology of works by many of Chicago's leading black writers includes poetry, fiction, drama, essays, journalism, and historical and social commentary.
The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975
Lauri Ramey
Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317029175
The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975 by Lauri Ramey Pdf
In 1962, the Heritage Series of Black Poetry, founded and edited by Paul Breman, published Robert Hayden's A Ballad of Remembrance. By 1975, the Series had published 27 volumes by some of the twentieth-century's most important and influential poets. As elaborated in Lauri Ramey's extensive scholarly introduction, this innovative volume has dual purposes: To provide primary sources that recover the history and legacy of this groundbreaking publishing venture, and to serve as a research companion for scholars working on the Series and on twentieth-century black poetry. Never-before-published primary materials include Paul Breman's memoir, retrospectives by several of the poets published in the Series, a photo-documentary of W.E.B. Du Bois's 1958 visit to The Netherlands, poems by poets represented in the Series, and scholarly essays. Also included are bibliographies of the Heritage poets and of the Heritage Press Archives at the Chicago Public Library. This reference work is an essential resource for scholars working in the fields of black poetry, transatlantic studies, and twentieth-century book history.
Africana
Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Author : Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3951 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195170559
Africana by Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) Pdf
Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids, to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth.
The Collected Poems
Zbigniew Herbert
Author : Zbigniew Herbert
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780062046154
The Collected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert Pdf
This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's SSelected Poems, is "bound for a much longer haul than any of us can anticipate." He continues, "For Zbigniew Herbert's poetry adds to the biography of civilization the sensibility of a man not defeated by the century that has been most thorough, most effective in dehumanization of the species. Herbert's irony, his austere reserve and his compassion, the lucidity of his lyricism, the intensity of his sentiment toward classical antiquity, are not just trappings of a modern poet, but the necessary armor—in his case well-tempered and shining indeed—for man not to be crushed by the onslaught of reality. By offering to his readers neither aesthetic nor ethical discount, this poet, in fact, saves them frorn that poverty which every form of human evil finds so congenial. As long as the species exists, this book will be timely."
A History of African American Poetry
Lauri Ramey
Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035478
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.
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
Arnold Rampersad,Hilary Herbold
Author : Arnold Rampersad,Hilary Herbold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780199939732
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Arnold Rampersad,Hilary Herbold Pdf
For over two centuries, black poets have created verse that captures the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of the African-American experience. Reflecting their variety of visions and styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry aims to offer nothing less than a definitive literary portrait of a people. Here are poems by writers as different as Paul Laurence Dunbar and W.E.B. Du Bois; Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes; Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka; Rita Dove and Harryette Mullen; Yusef Komunyakaa and Nathaniel Mackey. Acclaimed as a biographer and editor, Arnold Rampersad groups these poems as meditations on key issues in black culture, including the idea of Africa; the South; slavery; protest and resistance; the black man, woman, and child; sexuality and love; music and religion; spirituality; death and transcendence. With their often starkly contrasting visions and styles, these poets illuminate some of the more controversial and intimate aspects of the black American experience. Poetry here is not only or mainly a vehicle of protest but also an exploration of the complex and tender subtleties of black culture. One section offers tributes to celebrated leaders such as Sojourner Truth and Malcolm X, but many more reflect the heroism compelled by everyday black life. The variety of poetic forms and language captures the brilliant essence of English as mastered by black Americans dedicated to the art of poetry. Loving and yet also honest and unsparing, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry is for readers who treasure both poetry and the genius of black America.