Research Catalog

Title

Kaleidoscope : poems by American Negro poets / edited and with an introduction by Robert Hayden.

Publication

New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1967]

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Details

Additional Authors

Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980

Description

xxiv, 231 p. ports. (on lining papers); 20 cm.

Series Statement

Curriculum-related books

Uniform Title

Curriculum-related books

Alternative Title

Poems by American Negro poets

Subject

• University of South Alabama
• American poetry > African American authors
• African Americans > Poetry
• African Americans
• American poetry > African American authors
• Lyrik
• Schwarze
• College readers
• English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers
• Lyrik
• Schwärze
• USA
• Schwarze
• USA

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Poetry
• poetry.
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Poésie.
• Anthologie.
• Negro Poets.

Note

• has original dust jacket, protected by mylar.

Contents

Introduction / Phillis Wheatley / from "To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, etc.," -- His Excellency, General Washington -- On Being Brought from Africa to America -- George Moses Horton / George Moses Horton, Myself -- On Liberty and Slavery -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / The Slave Auction -- Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Paradox -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- To a Captious Critic -- The Poet -- The Haunted Oak -- The Debt -- Robert Gould Shaw -- James Weldon Johnson / Saint Peter Relates and Incident of the Resurrection Day -- Anne Spencer / At the Carnival -- Dunbar -- Georgia Douglass Johnson / I Want to Die While You Love Me -- Fenton Johnson / Tired -- The Minister -- The Banjo Player -- Claude McKay / Spring in New Hampshire -- The Tropics in New York -- If We Must Die -- St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd -- Jean Toomer / from "Karintha" -- Reapers -- from "Carma" -- Song of the Son -- Georgia Dusk -- Melvin B. Tolson / African China -- from "Harlem Gallery" -- Frank Horne / To James, from "Letters Found Near a Suicide" -- Kid Stuff -- Sterling A. Brown / Mose -- Strange Legacies -- Revelations -- Sporting Beasley -- Arna Bontemps / Close Your Eyes! -- Southern Mansion -- Reconnaissance -- To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country -- A Black Man Talks of Reaping -- Langston Hughes / I, Too -- Jazzonia -- Pennsylvania Station -- Two Somewhat Different Epigrams -- Montmartre -- Desert -- Where?When?Which? -- Late Corner -- Countee Cullen / A Brown Girl Dead -- Tableau -- Saturday's Child -- Wisdom Cometh with the Years -- For a Lady I Know -- For John Keats -- For Paul Laurence Dunbar -- From the Dark Tower -- Frank Marshall Davis / Robert Whitmore -- Arthur Ridgewood, M.D. -- Giles Johnson, Ph. D. -- Robert Hayden / The Diver -- Full Moon -- The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield -- "summertime and the living ..." -- Frederick Douglass -- Owen Dodson / Circle one -- When I Am Dead -- Conversation on V -- Hymn Written After Jeremiah Preached to Me in a Dream -- from "The Confession Stone" -- Margaret Danner / I'll Walk the Tightrope -- These Beasts and the Benin Bronze -- Sadie's Playhouse -- Through the Varied Patterned Lace -- Dudley Randall / Booker T. and W.E.B. -- George -- Souvenirs -- Margaret Abigail Walker / For My People -- Lineage -- Molly Means -- Towa Farmer -- Childhood -- Samual Allen / To Satch -- A Moment Please -- Gwendolyn Brooks / Hunchback Girl: She Thinks of Heaven -- Negro Hero -- Piano after War -- Mentors -- But can see better there, and laughing there -- Strong Men, Riding Horses -- The Bean Eaters -- Myron O'Higgins / Vaticide -- M. Carl Holman / Notes for a Movie Script -- Song -- Three Brown Girls Singing -- Mr. Z -- James A. Emmanuel / The Young Ones, Flip Side -- Wedding Procession, from a Window -- The Negro -- Mari Evans / The World I See -- If There Be Sorrow -- ... And the Old Women Gathered -- Naomi Long Madgett / The Reckoning -- Two Poems from "Trinity: A Dream Sequence" -- G.C. Oden / The Carousel -- Review from Staten Island -- " ... As When Emotion Too Far Exceeds its Cause" -- A Private Letter to Brazil -- Oliver Pitcher / Salute -- Raison d'Étre -- Ted Joans / Voice in the Crowd -- It is Time -- Calvin C. Hernton / Young Negro Poet -- Madhouse -- Gerald William Barrax / The Sacrifice -- Christmas 1959 et cetera -- Patroness -- The Death of a Squirrel in McKinley Park -- Black Narcissus -- Conrad Kent Rivers / The Invisible Man -- The Still Voice of Harlem -- The Subway -- Leroi Jones / Epistrophe -- Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note -- Snake Eyes -- Audubon, Drafted -- Bob Kaufman / To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room -- Perhaps -- Who Has Seen the Wind? -- Response -- Julia Fields / Madness One Monday Evening -- David Henderson / Sketches of Harlem -- Julius Lester / Poems -- Carl Wendell Hines, Jr. / Two Jazz Poems -- D.L. Graham / soul.

ISBN

• 0152420010
• 9780152420017

LCCN

67018543

OCLC

• ocm01974886
• 1974886
• SCSB-8419804

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library