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American Negro Poetry: An Anthology

American Negro Poetry: An Anthology

Bontemps, Arna

Paperback

Series: American Century

Poetry AnthologiesPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 0809015641
ISBN13: 9780809015641
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Dec 31 1995
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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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