Research Catalog

Title

Afro-American literature. Poetry / [editors] William Adams, Peter Conn, Barry Slepian.

Publication

• Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1970]
• ©1970.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adams, William, 1936-
• Conn, Peter J.
• Slepian, Barry

Description

[xii], 130 pages; 21 cm

Alternative Title

Poetry

Subjects

• Readers
• Slave trade > Poetry
• Slavery > United States > Poetry
• Readers > 1950-
• Since 1950
• Black author
• Literary collections
• American poetry > African American authors > Study and teaching
• African American poets > Biography
• African Americans > Poetry

Genre/Form

Literary collections.

Note

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [viii-ix]) and index.

Contents

The new day -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- From the dark tower / Countee Cullen -- The day-breakers / Arna Bontemps -- And what shall you say? / Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. -- Status quo / Binga Dismond -- For Edwin R. Embree / Owen Dodson -- Tenebris / Angelina W. Grimke -- In bondage / Claude McKay -- As I grew older / Langston Hughes -- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson -- Portraits in black -- John Henry / Anonymous -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- Booker T. and W.E.B. / Dudley Randall -- Medgar Evers / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman -- Robert Whitmore / Frank Marshall Davis -- When Mahalia sings / Quandra Prettyman -- Crowns and garlands / Langston Hughes -- Black pride -- To a dark girl / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A dark and sudden beauty / Lance Jeffers -- Red / Countee Cullen -- Dream variation / Langston Hughes -- Motto / Langston Hughes -- Soul / D.L. Graham -- Middle passage / Robert Hayden -- African heritage -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Heritage / Countee Cullen -- Heritage / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Jungle taste / Edward S. Silvera -- The African affair / Bruce McM. Wright -- Images of the south -- The slave auction / Frances E.W. Harper -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes -- "So quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- Remembering Nat Turner / Sterling A. Brown -- Southern mansion / Arna Bontemps -- Tour 5 / Robert Hayden -- Runagate runagate / Robert Hayden -- Picnic: the liberated / M. Carl Holman -- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown -- The city -- Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks -- John Henry in Harlem / Melvin B. Tolson -- Ballad of the landlord / Langston Hughes -- The train runs late to Harlem / Helene Johnson -- Migration / Carole Gregory -- The tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- This imperfect world -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Freedom train / Langston Hughes -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- Award / Ray Durem -- After the eleven o'clock news / Anonymous -- Ironic moods -- A moment please / Paul Vesey -- Children's rhymes / Langston Hughes -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Epitaph: for a lady I know / Countee Cullen -- Sympathy / Ray Durem -- View from the corner / Paul Vesey -- Southern cop / Sterling A. Brown -- Angry voices -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- The white house / Claude McKay -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The crazy woman / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Impasse / Langston Hughes -- Reapers / Jean Toomer -- To the pale poets / Ray Durem.

Call Number

Sc D 16-1778

OCLC

8166837

Title

Afro-American literature. Poetry / [editors] William Adams, Peter Conn, Barry Slepian.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1970]

Copyright Date

©1970.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

Since 1950

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Adams, William, 1936- editor, compiler.

Conn, Peter J., editor, compiler.

Slepian, Barry, editor, compiler.

Research Call Number

Sc D 16-1778