| Description |
45 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Poetry for young people |
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Poetry for young people.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of poems by African-American poets, including Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Alexander. |
| Contents |
On Being Brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley -- George Moses Horton, Myself / George Moses Horton -- Songs for the People / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Dawn -- To One Coming North / Claude McKay -- The Black Finger / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Exultation / Mae V. Cowdery -- Song of the Son / Jean Toomer -- Tableau / Countee Cullen -- I, Too / Langston Hughes -- The Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Haiku 37/ Haiku 64 / Richard Wright -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- The Moose Wallow -- Pete at the Zoo / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Bean Eaters -- I Want to Write / Margaret Walker -- The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom / Alice Walker -- Winter Poem / Nikki Giovanni -- A Round / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Poem No. 1 -- My Father's First Baseball Game / Afaa Michael Weaver -- A Meditation for My Son -- The Poet / Lucille Clifton -- Imagination / James Baldwin -- Caged Bird / Maya Angelou -- Alone / Michael S. Harper -- Plum blossom plum jam / June Jordan -- Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett -- Obsidian / Melvin Dixon -- Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander -- My People / Langston Hughes |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors -- Juvenile poetry.
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African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Rampersad, Arnold.
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Blount, Marcellus.
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Barbour, Karen, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9781402716898 |
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1402716893 |
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