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Top 10 Best "African American Poetry" Books

#10

Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep

Michael S. Harper
Anthony Walton

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African-American Poetry

Joan R. Sherman
James Madison Bell
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké
George Moses Horton

African American Poetry

African-American Poetry

Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753—1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Other contributors include James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, many others. Indispensable for students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry. Introduction.

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#9

Pass It On

Wade Hudson
Floyd Cooper

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#8

Words with Wings

Belinda Rochelle

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#7

Performing the Word

Fahamisha Patricia Brown

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#6

I, Too, Sing America

Catherine Clinton
Stephen Alcorn

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#5

Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry

Ashley Bryan

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#4

Soulscript

June Jordan

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#3

The Book of American Negro Poetry

James Weldon Johnson

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#2

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

Michael S. Harper
Anthony Walton

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Trouble the Water

An anthology of African-American poetry represents 250 years of the black experience and includes works by such figures as Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, Rita Dove, and Colleen McElroy.

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Trouble the Water

Jerry W. Ward

African American Poetry
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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry

Arnold Rampersad
Hilary Herbold

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