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The 100 Best African American Poems
Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round number. The result is this startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African American verse. These magnetic poems are an exciting mix of most-loved classics and daring new writing. From Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur, Natasha Trethewey, and many others, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 1402221118
- UPC: 760789225604
- ASIN: 1402221118
- ISBN: 9781402221118
- Brand: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
- Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
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The Black Poets
"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 R... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 0553275631
- ASIN: 0553275631
- ISBN: 0553275631
- Manufacturer: Bantam
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Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky).Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey “consistently and dramatically expanded the power” of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment “Where Poetry Lives.” Marilyn Nelson says “the wide scope of Trethewey’s interests and her adept handling of form have created an opus of classics both elegant and necessary.” With her selections and introductory essay... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: B01MG7MARE
- ASIN: B01MG7MARE
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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A Raisin in the Sun
This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain d... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 0679755330
- ASIN: 0679755330
- ISBN: 0679755330
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her ... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 0345514408
- ASIN: 0345514408
- ISBN: 0345514408
- Brand: Maya Angelou
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Citizen: An American Lyric
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . .A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters ar... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 1555976905
- ASIN: 1555976905
- ISBN: 1555976905
- Brand: Graywolf Press
- Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry: 200 Years of Vision, Struggle, Power, Beauty, and Triumph from 50 Outstanding Poets
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--a... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 0375703004
- ASIN: 0375703004
- ISBN: 0375703004
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 0307278441
- ASIN: 0307278441
- ISBN: 0307278441
- Brand: Vintage Books USA
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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One Crazy Summer
In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. "This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare."*Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined.While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 0060760907
- ASIN: 0060760907
- ISBN: 0060760907
- Brand: Amistad Press
- Manufacturer: Amistad
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The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation.It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat Poets features 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters.The BreakBeat Poets is for people who love Hip-Hop, for fans of the culture, for people who've never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads. This anthology is meant to expand the idea of who a poet is and what a poem is for.The BreakBeat Poets are the scribes reco... [Read More] Best African American Poets
- ASIN: 1608463958
- UPC: 884185440543
- ASIN: 1608463958
- ISBN: 1608463958
- Brand: Haymarket Books
- Manufacturer: Haymarket Books
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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks : (American Poets Project #19)
A selection of the influential African-American poet's works reflects her modernist style and includes numerous definitive World War II poems as well as pieces about the social and political upheavals of the Best African American Poets "If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics with African-American cultural tradition, a poetry that registered the life of the streets and the upheavals of the 20th century. Starting with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), her epoch-making debut volume, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks traces the full arc of her career in all its ambitious scope and unexpected stylistic shifts."Her formal range," writes editor Elizabeth Alexander,
- UPC: 3753776
- Rating: 4.0
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100 Best African American Poems, The
Award-winning poet and writer Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary Best African American Poets The 100 Best African American Poems
- UPC: 12337656
- Rating: 4.0
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COLLOQUIES: The African Poet, the African Philosopher, and the African Physicist - eBook
Colloquies is a unique mixture of poetry, philosophy and applied science intricately woven into a master piece of knowledge and wisdom sayings by the author using as his mouthpiece an African poet, an African philosopher and an African physicist. The philosopher discusses in abstract terms how he sees an issue which the Poet has described in his imaginative mind and the physicist queries if the matter can be quantified and expressed in empirical Best African American Poets COLLOQUIES: The African Poet, the African Philosopher, and the African Physicist - eBook
- UPC: 995091916
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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry : 200 Years of Vision, Struggle, Power, Beauty, and Triumph from 50 Outstanding Poets
Harper and Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States: 200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding Best African American Poets 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
- UPC: 25675551
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African American Poets - 2 Book Set - Grades 6-8 (Primary Source Readers)
Get inspired by the work of two of the most influential African American writers, Phillis Wheatley and Langston Hughes. Wheatley was the first African American woman to have a book published and Hughes became the voice of the Harlem Best African American Poets Features- Get inspired by the work of two of the most influential African American writers, Phillis Wheatley and Langston Hughes- Wheatley was the first African American woman to have a book published and Hughes became the voice of the Harlem Renaissance- Readers will learn about the hardships and achievements of these writers through high-interest, easy-to-read text, and vibrant images- Titles include Phillis Wheatley and Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance Writer- SKU:
- UPC: 48039059
- Model: 22698
- Color: Multicolor
2017 - Brave New Voices - Bay Area "Black Poetry"
http://www.bravenewvoices.org Witness the magic of Brave New Voices. Listen to Samuel and Keturah expose and deconstruct the cultural fixation on oppression in "Black Poetry." 600 young poets fro... Youth,Poetry,Spoken Word,Advocacy,Slam Poetry,Bay Area,Brave New Voices
Black Lives Matter Tribute (Memphis Poets)
Memphis poets teamed up with Film Company Prodigi Arts to deliver a bone chilling collaboration piece. Each poet brings a different perspective to the black lives matter movement. If you are intere... black lives matter,memphis poetry,poetry,spoken word,black lives matter poem
Nature Writing by African-American Poets
Join contributors to "Black Nature," the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille D... nature,environmental impacts,poetry,poet
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