African American poetry / edited by Arnold Rampersad and Marcellus Blount ; illustrated by Karen Barbour.

Other author Rampersad, Arnold.
Other author Blount, Marcellus.
Other author Barbour, Karen illustrator.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Sterling Children's Books, ©2012.
Description45 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Subjects
American poetry--African American authors. --Juvenile poetry.
African Americans--Juvenile poetry.

SeriesPoetry for young people
Poetry for young people. ^A599053
Contents On Being Brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley -- George Moses Horton, Myself / George Moses Horton -- Songs for the People / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Dawn -- To One Coming North / Claude McKay -- The Black Finger / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Exultation / Mae V. Cowdery -- Song of the Son / Jean Toomer -- Tableau / Countee Cullen -- I, Too / Langston Hughes -- The Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Haiku 37/ Haiku 64 / Richard Wright -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- The Moose Wallow -- Pete at the Zoo / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Bean Eaters -- I Want to Write / Margaret Walker -- The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom / Alice Walker -- Winter Poem / Nikki Giovanni -- A Round / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Poem No. 1 -- My Father's First Baseball Game / Afaa Michael Weaver -- A Meditation for My Son -- The Poet / Lucille Clifton -- Imagination / James Baldwin -- Caged Bird / Maya Angelou -- Alone / Michael S. Harper -- Plum blossom plum jam / June Jordan -- Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett -- Obsidian / Melvin Dixon -- Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander -- My People / Langston Hughes
Abstract Presents a collection of poems by African-American poets, including Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Alexander.
General noteIncludes index.
ISBN9781402716898
ISBN1402716893

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Joyner TRC Nonfiction 811.008 AF833 ✔ Available Place Hold