African-American poets : Robert Hayden through Rita Dove /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Chelsea House Publishers,
[2003]
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| Series: | Bloom's modern critical views.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Harold Bloom
- Part I. Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
- Answering The waste land : Robert Hayden and the rise of the African American poetic sequence / Brian Conniff
- Calling the names and centering the call in Robert Hayden's American journal / Ronald Walcott
- Part II. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
- The satisfactions of what's difficult in Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry / Brooke Kenton Horvath
- Part III. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)(1934-)
- All is permitted : the poetry of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka / W.D.E. Andrews
- Part IV. Maya Angelou (1928-)
- Maya Angelou : self and a song of freedom in the Southern tradition / Carole E. Neubauer
- Part IV. Derek Walcott (1930-)
- An empire of poetry / Sidney Burris
- Aspects of alienation in the poetry of Derek Walcott / Yvonne Ochillo
- Part V. Jay Wright (1935-)
- Jay Wright : Transfigurations : collected poems / Steven Meyer
- Decolonizing the spirits : history and storytelling in Jay Wright's Soothsayers and omens / C.K. Doreski
- Part VI. Lucille Clifton (1936-)
- The poetics of Matrilineage : mothers and daughters in the poetry of African American women, 1965-1985 / Fabian Clements Worsham
- Part VII. Michael S. Harper (1938-)
- Close roads : the friendship songs of Michael S. Harper / John F. Callahan
- Part VIII. Ishmael Reed (1938-)
- The artist as prophet, priest and gunslinger : Ishmael Reed's Cowboy in the boat of Ra / Shamoon Zamir
- Part IX. Rita Dove (1952-)
- Rita Dove's Shakespeares / Peter Erickson.