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I, too, sing America : three centuries of African American poetry

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  • Contributor: Clinton, Catherine; Bryan, Ashley; Joshua-Porter, Renee
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
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    2010
    Summary:

    Starting with Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this anthology captures the enormous talent and passion of African American poets.

    Contents:
    • I, too, sing America / Langston Hughes
    • Bars fight / Lucy Terry
    • Liberty and peace / Phillis Wheatley
    • On liberty and slavery / George Moses Horton
    • Yes! Strike again that sounding string / James M. Whitfield
    • Bury me in a free land / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    • The song of the smoke / W.E.B. Du Bois
    • Lift ev'ry voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson
    • We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
    • The black finger / Angelina Weld Grimké
    • Your world ; Interracial / Georgia Douglas Johnson
    • Children of the sun / Fenton Johnson
    • If we must die ; The white house / Claude McKay
    • Beehive / Jean Toomer
    • Heritage ; To a dark girl / Gwendolyn Bennett
    • A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps
    • Harlem ; The Negro speaks of rivers ; Merry-go-round/Cross / Langston Hughes
    • Tableau ; Saturday's child ; Incident / Countee Cullen
    • Sorrow home / Margaret Walker
    • Martin Luther King Jr. ; Malcolm X ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
    • Still I rise / Maya Angelou
    • Rites of passage / Audre Lorde
    • In the year / Amiri Baraka
    • The funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Nikki Giovanni
    • Women / Alice Walker
    • Primer / Rita Dove.
    Subject(s): African American authors | African Americans | American Poetry | Children's poetry, American | Collections | JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American | JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General | Juvenile poetry | Poetry
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Audio
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781883332570, 1883332575