| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
197 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Partial contents ; O Black and unknown birds / James Weldon Johnson -- Dawn ; The party ; The debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Rhapsody / William Stanley Braithwaite -- To Clarissa Scott Delany / Angeline W. Grimke -- For Jim, Easter Eve / Anne Apencer -- Morning light the dew-drier / Effie Lee Newsome -- Common Dust ; The poet speaks / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- The daily grind / Fenton Johnson -- The tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- Georgia dusk / Jean Toomer -- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson. |
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Partial contents cont'd ; Kid stuff / Frank Horne -- McDonogh day in New Orleans / Marcus B. Christian -- Sister Lou / Sterling A. Brown -- Solace / Clarissa Scott Delany -- Brass spittoons ; Lenox Avenue mural ; Bound no'th blues / Langston Hughes -- Hatred / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Heritage (for Harold Jackman) / Countee Cullen -- Appoggiatura / Donald Jeffrey Hayes -- The resurrection / Jonathan Brooks -- Flowers of darkness / Frank Marshall Davis -- No images / Waring Cuney -- Poem ; Sonnett to a negro in Harlem / Helene Johnson -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Adjuration / Charles Enoch Wheeler. |
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Partial contents cont'd ; Without name / Pauli Murray -- A ballad of remembrance / Robert Hayden -- Perspectives / Dudley Randall -- Sorrow is the only faithful one / Owen Dodson -- Stevedore / Leslie M. Collins -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- The fishes and the poet's hands / Frank Yerby -- A moment please ; To Satch / Samual Allen -- Here and now / Catherine Cater -- Flags ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall, 1957 / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The African affair / Bruce McM. Wright -- Sonnet / Alfred A. Duckett -- Sunset horn / Myron O'Higgins -- And on this shore / M. Carl Holman -- Christmas lullaby for a new-born child / Yvonne Gregory. |
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Partial contents cont'd ; Far from Africa: four poems / Margaret Danner -- A private letter to Brazil / G. C. Oden -- The rebel / Mari E. Evans -- Raison d'etre / Oliver Pitcher -- Four questions addressed to His Excellency, the Prime Minister / James P. Vaughn -- At war / Russell Atkins -- Lester Young / Ted Joans -- Harlem sounds: hallelujah corner / William Browne -- The voyage of Jimmy Poo / James A. Emanuel -- Four sheets to the wind and a one-way ticket to France, 1933 ; To Richard Wright / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones -- Celebrated return / Clarence Major -- No time for poetry / Julia Fields -- The Bishop of Atlanta: Ray Charles / Horace Julian Bond -- Two jazz poems / Carl Wendell Hines, Jr. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: American Negro poetry. [1st ed.] New York, Hill and Wang [1963] (OCoLC)570971577 |
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