African American poets : lives, works, and sources by Pettis, Joyce Owens instant download

African American poets : lives, works, and sources by Pettis, Joyce Owens instant download

xiii, 357 pages : 25 cm, Profiles 46 African American poets, from the 18th century to the present, including George Moses Horton, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Jean Toomer, and Phillis Wheatley, along with information on various editions of their work and bibliographies, Includes bibliographical references and index, Ai (1947- ) -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Amiri Baraka (1934- ) -- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Sterling Brown (1901-1989) -- Lucille Clifton (1936- ) -- Wanda Coleman (1946- ) -- Jayne Cortez (1936- ) -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- Toi Derricotte (1941- ) -- Rita Dove (1952- ) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Cornelius Eady (1954- ) --- Mari Evans (n.d.- ) -- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) -- Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824-1911) -- Michael S. Harper (1938- ) -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1968) -- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886-1966) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- June Jordan (1936- ) -- Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Nathaniel Mackey (1947- ) -- Haki Madhubuti (1942- ) -- Colleen J. McElroy (1936- ) -- Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- E. Ethelbert Miller (1950- ) -- Thylias Moss (1954- ) -- Marilyn Nelson (1946- ) -- Dudley Randall (1914- ) -- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) -- Carolyn Rodgers (1945- ) -- Sonia Sanchez (1934- ) -- Melvin B. Tolson (1900-1966) -- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- Quincy Troupe (1943- ) -- Margaret Abigail Walker (1915-1998) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) -- Jay Wright (1935- ) -- Al Young (1939- )