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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry

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For over two centuries, black poets have created verse that captures the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of the African-American experience. Reflecting their variety of visions and styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry aims to offer nothing less than a definitive literary portrait of a people.

Here are poems by writers as different as Paul Laurence Dunbar and W.E.B. Du Bois; Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes; Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka; Rita Dove and Harryette Mullen; Yusef Komunyakaa and Nathaniel Mackey. Acclaimed as a biographer and editor, Arnold Rampersad groups these poems as meditations on key issues in black culture, including the idea of Africa; the South; slavery; protest and resistance; the black man, woman, and child; sexuality and love; music and religion; spirituality; death and transcendence.

With their often starkly contrasting visions and styles, these poets illuminate some of the more controversial and intimate aspects of the black American experience. Poetry here is not only or mainly a vehicle of protest but also an exploration of the complex and tender subtleties of black culture. One section offers tributes to celebrated leaders such as Sojourner Truth and Malcolm X, but many more reflect the heroism compelled by everyday black life. The variety of poetic forms and language captures the brilliant essence of English as mastered by black Americans dedicated to the art of poetry.

Loving and yet also honest and unsparing, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry is for readers who treasure both poetry and the genius of black America.

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English
Pages
424

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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
October 1, 2005, Oxford University Press
Hardcover in English

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New York, USA

Table of Contents

To make a poet Black
What is Africa to me?
The rocking loom of history
Like walking out of shadow
If we must die
This man shall be remembered
A rock against the world
Is she our sister?
Don't it make you want to cry?
Whose children are these?
They are all of me
Oh, singing tree!
Oh, my soul is in the whirlwind!
Dear lovely death
I dream a world.

Edition Notes

Genre
Poetry.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811.008/0896073
Library of Congress
PS591.N4 O97 2005

Contributors

Editor
Arnold Rampersad
Associate Editor
Hilary Herbold

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
424p.
Number of pages
424

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3400849M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780195125634
ISBN 10
0195125630
ISBN 13
9780195125634
LCCN
2005015242
OCLC/WorldCat
1035755194
Library Thing
909541
Goodreads
739105

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