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Author |
: Nikki Giovanni |
Publisher |
: Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402221118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402221118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The 100 Best African American Poems by : Nikki Giovanni
Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
Author |
: Camille T. Dungy |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820334318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820334316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Nature by : Camille T. Dungy
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 |
: Michael S. Harper |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307765130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030776513X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by : Michael S. Harper
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 |
: Joan R. Sherman |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 99 |
Release |
: 2012-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486111452 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486111458 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis African-American Poetry by : Joan R. Sherman
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 |
: Lindsay Patterson |
Publisher |
: TarcherPerigee |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015038117605 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Rock Against the Wind by : Lindsay Patterson
Collection of letters and poems written by African-American authors, celebrating love between men and women, and exploring the love between parent and child.
Author |
: Timo Müller |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2018-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496817846 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496817842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African American Sonnet by : Timo Müller
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.
Author |
: Elroy Alister Esdaille |
Publisher |
: Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 94 |
Release |
: 2021-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781636611297 |
ISBN-13 |
: 163661129X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis It's Hard to Be a Black Man in America and Other African American Poems by : Elroy Alister Esdaille
It's Hard to Be a Black Man in America and Other African American Poems By: Elroy Alister Esdaille This book examines the African-American experience from multiple perspectives and cannot be nailed down to any singular thematic presentation. By peering through the pages of time to current day, the book attempts to disclose the African-American experience in The United States, and it can be applied to other countries as well that once had former colonial designs and slave labor. Modern day America, for many Black people, can be said to be a sum total of its messy history of slavery and segregation, and the recalcitrant roots that still persist today. Life for many black men and women in America is extremely challenging for we have to negotiate systemic, and institutionalize racism on a daily basis, while simultaneously wrestling with issues of colorism and microaggressions that continue to pervade society. It’s difficult to understand the perspective of a black man or black woman in America without getting at least a glimpse into his or her insight about race relations and its impact on him or her. Many African Americans feel that the system is designed against them, but their racial concerns often fall on deaf ears. This book gives in-depth examinations about race in America and it asks questions about accountability through the stylist forms of the poems. As a Caribbean immigrant who migrated to The United States, Elroy Alister Esdaille’s experiences as a black man with race relations has at times been painful as he has experienced firsthand the ugliness of racism and how the system so often makes it extremely hard for many black men to strive and live with dignity and pride. He has watched how the stereotype of criminality has informed decisions made against black men like him, and how one must develop a will stronger than iron in order to survive. As he envisions his readers, it is his desire to speak to all truth seekers and world changers. Race is a messy topic that many people avoid, but it is his aim to confront the issues head-on and lay the foundation for honest and controversial conversations that could inspire meaningful change in society. He would not say he is attempting to enlighten anyone, but rather for people to find their true selves and push hard for the future that they want and deserve.
Author |
: Professor Gordon E Thompson |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2014-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472430601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472430603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Music, Black Poetry by : Professor Gordon E Thompson
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 |
: Camonghne Felix |
Publisher |
: Haymarket Books |
Total Pages |
: 73 |
Release |
: 2019-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608466146 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608466140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Build Yourself a Boat by : Camonghne Felix
2019 National Book Award Longlist: “Centering on black, female identity, [this is] an exquisite and thoughtful collection.” —Bustle This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. A finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory. “With Build Yourself a Boat, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling.” —Morgan Parker, author of Magical Negro
Author |
: Useni Eugene Perkins |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 41 |
Release |
: 2017-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316360326 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316360325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hey Black Child by : Useni Eugene Perkins
Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are?Do you know you can be What you want to be If you try to be What you can be? This lyrical, empowering poem celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young people to dream big and achieve their goals.