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African American Poetry

African-American Poets by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781604138108
Publication Date: 2010-07-01
Black Girl Magic by Jamila Woods (Editor); Mahogany l. Browne (Editor); Idrissa Simmonds (Editor)
ISBN: 9781608468577
Publication Date: 2018-04-17
From Now On by Clarence Major
ISBN: 9780820347967
Publication Date: 2015-04-01
Killing Poetry by Javon Johnson
ISBN: 9780813580029
Publication Date: 2017-07-17
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Hilary Herbold (Editor); Arnold Rampersad (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195125634
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Revise the Psalm by Quraysh Ali Lansana (Editor); Sandra Jackson-Opoku (Editor)
ISBN: 9781940430867
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
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A Sense of Place by Daniel A. Kriesberg
ISBN: 9781563085659
Publication Date: 1999-03-15
What I Say by Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Editor, Preface by); Lauri Ramey (Editor, Preface by)
ISBN: 9780817358006
Publication Date: 2015-06-15

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Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
A handy source for modern and contemporary African American poetry, with nearly 9,000 poems by sixty two prominent African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.