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Books on: major african american poets

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Major American Poets

Book by Harry Hayden Clark; American book company, 1936

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American Poetry--19th Cent, American Prose Literature, Poetics

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...not accuse him of being a jazz poet," says T. K. Whipple Spokesmen...as he treated it, peculiarly American. At first one is tempted to...making the transition from the American negro to the African. And The Santa FE Trail evinces...
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The Mentor Book of Major American Poets: From Edward Taylor and Walt Whitman to Hart Crane and W. H. Auden

Book by Oscar Williams, Edwin Honig; New American Library, 1962

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American Poetry--Collections, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Innumerable women, each like a flower. But only one man -- like a city. II I remember a Geographic picture, the 9 women of some African chief semi-naked astraddle a log, an official log to be presumed, heads left: Foremost froze the young and latest, erect...
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Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1995

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...this problem. His last major book of poetry published...as one of the leading African American poets of contemporary times, he remains a major voice and continues to...Dynamite Voices I: Black Poets of the 1960s . 1971...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1994

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, African Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...greatly esteemed as a poet in his own brief lifetime...complications , seems today the major African-American poet before Sterling Brown...Coleridge-Taylor, the poets James Whitcomb Riley...major African-American poet. The celebrated lyric...
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Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-To-Z Guide

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2003

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American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Male Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Gay Men's Writings, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Gay Men--United States--Biography--Dictionaries, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ranging introduction to gay American poetry and drama. The...voices. They come from major metropolitan centers...Grant, Guillermo Reyes ; African American Melvin Dixon...effort to include all the major artists: The works of...summary of its subjects major works, provides an overview...

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Journal Articles on: major african american poets

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Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic

Journal article by Douglas Steward; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

Subjects:

African American gays--Literature, African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Race identity, Gay and lesbian studies--Social aspects, Saint, Assotto--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that characterize American nationalism itself...requirement: the gay poets opposed needs to...poetry, since these poets are (1) racially...mentioning several poets whose work is displayed...lesbian" section of major bookstores than in the African-American section...67). When a poet "cites" a stereotype...
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Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights

Journal article by Joanne V. Gabbin; MELUS, Vol. 32, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Genius: The African American Bardic Poet...American Bardic Poet from Slavery...American Bardic Poet from Slavery...in which poets combine the...central to African American literary...through Tolsons major works to...important poets, and revisits...
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Baraka's Billie Holiday as a Blues Poet of Black Longing

Journal article by Farah Jasmine Griffin; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

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African American singers--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Baraka, Amiri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Holiday, Billie--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...Billie Holiday as a blues poet of black longing. by...variety of the Black American experience. Baraka first...been cited as one of the major architects of the misogynist...have evidence of male poets containing female voices...through the pen of the male poet. Barakas writings on...Who is the blues poet here? Baraka or Lady...shares much with blues poets who preceded him. The...
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Answering "The Waste Land": Robert Hayden and the Rise of the African American Poetic Sequence

Journal article by Brian Conniff; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

Subjects:

African American poets--Conduct of life, American poetry--African American authors, Black nationalism--Social aspects, Eliot, T.S.--Influence, Hayden, Robert--Conduct of life

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...Rise of the African American Poetic Sequence...African American poets.(3) At Fisks...labeled a "Negro poet." From the...African-American poet, a Negro poet. Im no accident...unrecognized poets in America...the work of major international...
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Numerological Tradition in the Works of Jupiter Hammon

Journal article by Arlen Nydam; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American poets--Works, Hammon, Jupiter--Criticism and interpretation, Hammon, Jupiter--Works, Numerology--Usage

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...the first African American poet ever published...only a few major western poets. John Dryden...Afro-American Writing...Beginnings of African-American Literature...Notions of the Poets and Philosophers...First Negro Poet: The Complete...

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Magazine Articles on: major african american poets

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What African-Americans Can Learn from South Africans and Vice Versa

Magazine article by Randall Robinson, David N. Dinkins, Elaine R. Jones, Richard G. Hatcher; Ebony, Vol. 49, August 1994

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African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements--International aspects, South Africa--Politics and government

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...sisterhood to South Africans, and have been rewarded...all too familiar to American Blacks, whose ancestors...discrimination at home, South Africans were rebelling against...these years, South Africans learned from our poets, activists, politicians...business leaders, and African-Americans were influenced, in...
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Being Seen and Heard: African American Documentation Initiatives in Iowa and Minnesota

Magazine article by Kathryn M. Neal; Negro History Bulletin, January 2001

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African Americans--History, African Americans--Political activity, Historic documents--Management, Iowa--Demographic aspects, Iowa--History, Minnesota--Demographic aspects, Minnesota--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and other major figures...papers of African American...local African American authors...about African Americans nationwide...a famous poet had with...Foundation of African American Literature...by and for African Americans from 1931...Leading poets of the day...document African American literary...
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Book Reviewing, African-American Style

Magazine article by Wanda Coleman; The Nation, Vol. 275, September 16, 2002

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, Criticism--Analysis, Race relations--History, United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Book Reviewing, African-American Style...leading African-American bookstore in Los...day African-American writers, no matter...shifting currents in American publishing. Into...century, African-Americans are still denied...which reintroduced poets Gwendolyn Brooks...Brown, Clarence Major, Jean Toomer...
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Obama a Life Inside the American Dream

Magazine article by Ayi Kwei Armah; New African, July 2008

Subjects:

African American politicians--Social aspects, Multiculturalism--Political aspects, Obama, Barack--Political activity, Obama, Barack--Social aspects, Presidential candidates--Political activity, Presidential candidates--Social aspects

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...so skewed that African-Americans "were always...any African-American who succumbed...encounters between Americans of African, European or...and his European American mother, again...different from what Americans call politics...an influential African-American pastor, Jeremiah...
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Langston Hughes: 100th Birthday Celebration of the Poet Laureate of Black America

Magazine article by Charles Whitaker; Ebony, Vol. 57, April 2002

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African American poets--Appreciation, Hughes, Langston--Appreciation, Poets--Appreciation

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...HE was the most American of American poets. His verse was...was definitively African-American and...the preferred poet of the hip-hop...Americas most popular poet," says of Kansas...Americas most popular poet" in an online...Academy of American Poets earlier in the...produced more than 62 major works, including...

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Newspaper Articles on: major african american poets

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Well-Versed; Wizards' Thomas Evolves as a Poet

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 4, 2004

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Washington Wizards

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Thomas Evolves as a Poet. Byline: Patrick...the worlds tallest poet. Hes certainly...business management major at Syracuse, Thomas...verses of the Last Poets, a large library...was a prep All-American and the anchor of...an essay on their African-American hero. He received...
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Trail Is Tribute to Black History

Newspaper article by Trish Foxwell; The Washington Times, August 17, 2000

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Maryland

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...experience of all African Americans, so...only one of many Africans who arrived on...the plight of the Africans who arrived here...Maryland was a on a major trade route where many African Americans were...where many African Americans were brought...in the annals of American history." Mr...scholars, thinkers, poets, artists and intellectuals...
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Culture: In the Spirit of Innovation; Terry Grimley Looks at Some of the Highlights of the CBSO's 2004-5 Season

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 14, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Julian Andersons Four American Choruses, plus...Variations on an African Air by the black...setting ofblack American poets. Music director...Apart from Tosca, major works Oramo will...is entrusted to American conductor Joseph...
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Freedom Rings Loud and Clear in District; Events Commemorate D.C. Emancipation

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 14, 2005

Subjects:

United States. Library of Congress

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...along the citys major thoroughfares...are part of the African notion of special...within the African American community. It says...important for African Americans on several levels...express African American unity as they moved...Horton, professor of American Studies and History...14th streets NW. Poets, choirs, dancers...
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Dramatist's Fame, Career as Exotic as His Plays: Mercurial Edward Albee Enjoys 'Revival'

Newspaper article by Nelson Pressley; The Washington Times, December 1, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...slumping playwright. Major American playwright; neglected...novelists are novelists, poets are poets, playwrights...the absurdist "The American Dream" and then...rather than with major stars on Broadway...Towers. Modern and African art adorns the walls...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: major african american poets

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...provocative and active poets of the decade was...also written by such poets as Anne Sexton...Berryman . Accomplished poets with idiosyncratic...work of feminist poet Adrienne Rich . Meanwhile...Post Vietnam War American literature has called...encompasses the work of African-American (e...Emerson, ed., Major Writers of Early...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the great Romantic poets did not produce...theater; indeed, the major philosophical concern...of Edward Albee (American). The pessimism...trilogy; and in such American plays as Jason Millers...imitators), explored American culture with a kind...drama by and about African Americans emerged as a significant...
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Massachusetts

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with Boston a major U.S. port. In...sites Adams, Boston African American, Frederick...a foundation of American democracy. In practice...States. Native American resentment of the...voluntary union of American colonies. In 1675...power of the Native Americans of southern New...such writers and poets as Richard Henry...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...speakers elsewhere, see American literature ; Australian...literature ; and South African literature . The Tudors...sonneteer among early Tudor poets, and was, with Henry...common goal of these poets was to make English as...narrative by several poets that updated the medieval...be drawn from it. The poet who best synthesized...

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