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Top 10 Best "African American Poetry" Books
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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry Arnold Rampersad
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Trouble the Water250 Years of African American PoetryAfrican American Poetry |
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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Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry…Books |
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I, Too, Sing AmericaBooks |
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Words with WingsBooks |
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Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep Michael S. Harper
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Performing the WordFahamisha Patricia BrownBooks |
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SoulscriptJune JordanBooks |
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Pass It OnAfrican American Poetry for Children… |
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African-American PoetryBooks |
Black Nature Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers, such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson, as well as newer talents, such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the ... |
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Black NatureCamille T. DungyAfrican American Poetry |
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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry Michael S. Harper
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