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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Description
Overview: With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Poems based on paintings by Laura Caghan, Patricia Ollison Jerrols, Arturo Lindsay, Howardena Pindell, Anita Steckel, Houston Conwill, Linda Graetz, Ntozake Shange, Donna Henes, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Martin Puryear, Wopo Holup, Patrice Viles, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jules T. Allen.
126) Black movie
Author
Publisher
Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of poems examines the African American experience."--
Author
Series
American poets continuum ; 180
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America's most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood and resilience shimmer with intellect, insight, humor, and joy, all in Clifton's characteristic style -- a voice that the late Toni Morrison described as 'seductive with the simplicity of an atom, which...
128) Climbing poetree
Author
Publisher
Whit Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Climbing Poetree is the combined force of two boundary-breaking soul sisters who have sharpened their art as a tool to expose injustice, channel hope into vision, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible. With roots in Colombia and Haiti, Alixa and Naima reside in Brooklyn and track footprints across the country and globe, weaving together their voices to tell powerful stories that expose injustice, dissolve apathy with hope,...
129) Collected poems
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems-- "Heritage," "Yet Do I Marvel" -- are widely celebrated, but much of Cullen's work remains to be discovered. This volume restores to print a body of work of singular intensity...
Author
Series
Lost Roads ; 50
Publisher
Lost Roads Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Frank Stanford was called by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alan Dugan a brilliant poet, ample in his work, like Whitman. He was the founder of Lost Roads Publishers and the author of a number of important works, among them the epic The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You, reprinted by Lost Roads under the editorship of Forrest Gander and C.D. Wright. Frank Stanford said his purpose in his writing and with his press was to 'reclaim the landscape...
Author
Publisher
Penny Candy Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh perspective of young men of color depicting thirteen views of everyday life: young boys dressed in their Sunday best, running to catch a bus, and growing up to be teachers, and much more. Each of Tony Medina's tanka is matched with a different artist including recent Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Award recipients." --
134) Riot
Author
Publisher
Broadside Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Riot is a poem in three parts, only one part of which has appeared in print before. It arises from the disturbances in Chicago after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Containing these poems which the author most wants to preserve, this volume summarizes the career to date of the man who has been called "the father of modern black poetry." It confirms Amiri Baraka as one of the major figures of contemporary American poetry.
138) Book of life
Author
Publisher
Broadside Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and WGBH/Frontline present a companion Web site to the "Frontline" television documentary program "The Case for Innocence." The program originally aired on January 11, 2000. The program explored why inmates remain in prison despite DNA evidence that exonerates them. PBS includes transcripts of the show, interviews, and the background of four such cases.
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