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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
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Pages: 450
Authors: Michael S. Harper
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: Vintage

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In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United Stat
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Authors: L. Ramey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-04 - Publisher: Springer

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In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'i
Black Nature
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Authors: Camille T. Dungy
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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 A
Trouble the Water
Language: en
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