Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This collection includes the work of both established and new poets from the four corners of Africa. The majority of poems were originally written in English but there are translations from Swahili, Yoruba, Portugese and French.
Poems of Black Africa
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This collection includes the work of both established and new poets from the four corners of Africa. The majority of poems were originally written in English but there are translations from Swahili, Yoruba, Portugese and French.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This collection includes the work of both established and new poets from the four corners of Africa. The majority of poems were originally written in English but there are translations from Swahili, Yoruba, Portugese and French.
Poems of Black Africa
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: London : Secker and Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Anthology spanning the history of African verse from early traditional songs and stories to the 1970s. The poems are arranged into 19 sections by theme rather than geographical or historical divisions.
Publisher: London : Secker and Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Anthology spanning the history of African verse from early traditional songs and stories to the 1970s. The poems are arranged into 19 sections by theme rather than geographical or historical divisions.
Poems of Black Africa
Author: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: London : Secker and Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Anthology spanning the history of African verse from early traditional songs and stories to the 1970s. The poems are arranged into 19 sections by theme rather than geographical or historical divisions.
Publisher: London : Secker and Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Anthology spanning the history of African verse from early traditional songs and stories to the 1970s. The poems are arranged into 19 sections by theme rather than geographical or historical divisions.
Classic Black African Poems
Author: Willard Ropes Trask
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Black Nature
Author: Camille T. Dungy
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334316
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334316
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
I Am An African
Author: Wayne Visser
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 095708174X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 095708174X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The 100 Best African American Poems
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402221118
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402221118
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
African-American Poetry
Author: Joan R. Sherman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111458
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111458
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
Author: Ashley Bryan
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756903572
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a line from a poem by different African American poets, describing an aspect of the black experience.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756903572
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a line from a poem by different African American poets, describing an aspect of the black experience.
Poems from East Africa
Author: David Cook
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966460196
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966460196
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The spirit of the poetic flowering of the 1960s is encapsulated in this comprehensive anthology. The collection gives voice to some fifty poets from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, writing in English. The diversity of the interests and styles of the individual poets is illustrated: a blend of the gentle lyricism that is a feature of East African writing. All the major poets are included, and many not so well known. Amongst the best known are Jared Angira, Jonathan Kariara, Joseph Kariuki, Taban Lo Liyong, Okot p'Bitek, and David Rubadiri - one of the editors.