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15 of the Best Books and Articles on: African-American Poetry

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1.

Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 200 pgs.

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Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 182 pgs.

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Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present » Read Now
by Sascha Feinstein. 196 pgs.

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...AfricanAmerican music, and African-American writers, whose...predecessors. Jazz poetry from the 1970s...that jazz degraded African-American culture by perpetuating...Bessie...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 160 pgs.

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Black American Poets and Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 145 pgs.

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 » Read Now
by James Edward Smethurst. 288 pgs.

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and organized ideology from the "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers who are canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 247 pgs.

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Take Five: Collected Poems, 1971-1986 » Read Now
by Kenneth A. McClane. 286 pgs.

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Series Foreword Introduction Running Before the Wind (1972) Out Beyond the Bay (1975) Moons and Low Times (1978) To Hear the River (1981) At Winter's End (1982) These Halves Are Whole (1983) New Poems, 1983-
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley » Read Now
by Julian D. Mason Jr., Phillis Wheatley. 238 pgs.

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...interest in Phillis Wheatley and her poetry during that time, including the countrys...find it easier to own and to know her poetry and to understand and appreciate it...
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The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry » Read Now
by Joan R. Sherman. 158 pgs.

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For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, his folk verse, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved for...
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For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, his folk verse, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved for sixty-eight years - from his birth until the close of the Civil War - he was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse, the first black man to publish a book in the South, and the only slave to earn a significant income through the sale of his poems. As a man and as a poet, Horton's achievements were extraordinary. In this volume, Joan Sherman collects sixty-two of Horton's poems. Her comprehensive introduction - which combines biography, history, cultural commentary, and critical insight - presents a compelling and detailed picture of this remarkable man's life and art. Covering a wide range of poetical subjects in varied verse forms, this collection is an eloquent testament to Horton's unique voice.
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A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Chap. 7 "A Quilt in Shades of Black: The Black Aesthetic in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry") » Read Now
by Jack Myers, David Wojahn. 302 pgs.

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...The Black Aesthetic in Twentieth- Century African American Poetry 158 8. American Poetry in the...these two special-focus essays--on womens and African American poetry--as...
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Language and Literature in the African American Imagination (Chap. 3 "Refusing to Be Boxed In: Sonia Sanchez's Transformation of the Haiku Form" and Chap. 10 "Afrocentric Aesthetics in Selected Harlem Renaissance Poetry") » Read Now
by Carol Blackshire-Belay. 214 pgs.

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Drawing together scholars from communication, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and other fields, this edited collection examines the current thinking on African American literature and language. Some of the most significant writers and thinkers in the field have contributed their views on all...
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Drawing together scholars from communication, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and other fields, this edited collection examines the current thinking on African American literature and language. Some of the most significant writers and thinkers in the field have contributed their views on all major aspects of the topic. The widespread debate over the canon in American literature, the issue of cultural diversity, and the need to have books with critical inquiry into African American culture make this collection suitable for scholars and students in diverse fields.
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To Make a Poet Black » Read Now
by J. Saunders Redding. 146 pgs.

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...wholly now an art in the sense that the poetry and prose of another people, say the...Hammons workaday character than all his poetry together. The thoughts expressed...
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To Raise, Destroy, and Create: The Poetry, Drama, and Fiction of Imamu Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones) » Read Now
by Henry C. Lacey. 214 pgs.

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...A study of the works of Imamu Amiri Baraka written between 1960 and 1970. Baraka is represented as an example of black America searching for identity, purpose and...
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Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes » Read Now
by Rosey E Pool. 189 pgs.

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