4 edition of Rediscovering African American Poetry found in the catalog.
Rediscovering African American Poetry
M. Blount
Published
February 10, 2008
by Princeton University Press
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| The Physical Object | |
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| Format | Paperback |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL11182483M |
| ISBN 10 | 0691024634 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780691024639 |
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This book will be indispensable to critics interested in African American uses of the sonnet and fixed forms more generally. - Anthony Reed, author of Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing. A well-conceived book on an important subject . American poetry is poetry of the United arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although before this unification, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies). Unsurprisingly, most of the early colonists' work relied.
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The newest addition to the acclaimed Poetry for Young People series shines a light on the power and beauty of African-American verse. Co-editors Arnold Rampersad and Marcellus Blount—both towering figures in literary criticism—have put together an impressive anthology that will open up a world of wonderful word images for children/5(5).
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African American poets as early as the American Revolution wrote verse reflective of the time in which they lived. The earliest known black American poets: Jupiter Hammon (), Lucy Terry () and Phillis Wheatley (_) constructed their poems on contemporary models.
Lucy Terry wrote a brief narrative poem describing an. RevellPeter, Quest in Modern American Poetry (London: Vision Press and Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble,£) pp. - Volume 16 Issue 3 - Ian F. Bell Read moreAuthor: Siddhant Kalra. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was a poet of African-American descent, who won a ‘Pulitzer Prize’ for her collection of poems ‘Annie Allen’.
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Poet Jean Toomer published his collection Cane in Counteé Cullen followed with his. A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day.
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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 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 Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. As Langston Hughes pointed out in his famous essay “ Years of American Negro Poetry,” “Poets and versifiers of African descent have been publishing poetry on American shores since the year when a slave woman named Lucy Terry penned a rhymed description of an Indian attack on the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts.”.
He went on to write, “art is to be an intensification or. ABOUT THE POET ~ Dr. Christopher Davis is a poet, teacher, and photographer. He has written thousands of poems about life. He has recently published ten of his poems and short stories in journals and anthologies, and is the author of book of poetry entitled Only, If: Volume 1 available for download at the Apple iBook : Dr.
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A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W. by Phillis Wheatley. A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. by Phillis.
