American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (Rev)

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ISBN-10: 0809015641
ISBN-13: 9780809015641
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Publish Date: 12/31/1995
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.60" H

American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (Rev)

Edited byArna Bontemps

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Price: $23.00

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With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), an important figure during and after the Harlem Renaissance, author of more than 25 novels, and longtime librarian at Fisk University, last revised this classic anthology just before his death, adding such crucial new voices as Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Bob Kaufman, among others.

This edition, issued in 1996, reprints the poems in Bontemps’s revised volume along with updated biographical notes. Nearly seventy poets are represented, their works indexed by both author and title.

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"[Bontemps's] most distinctive works are ringing affirmations of the human passion for freedom and the desire for social justice inherent in us all. Arnold Rampersad called him the conscience of his era and it could be fairly added that his tendency to fuse history and imagination represents his personal legacy to a collective memory." –Charles L. James, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (on the life and work of Arna Bontemps, editor of American Negro Poetry)
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ISBN-10: 0809015641
ISBN-13: 9780809015641
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Publish Date: 12/31/1995
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.60" H
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