American Negro poetry
by Arna Bontemps
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Arna Bontemps has brought together an extensive, representative, and brilliant collection of American Negro poetry. He has included 171 poems by fifty-five poets covering a span of seventy years. His choices reflect the spontaneity, warmth, folklore, and religious felling of the Negro people. Many of the poems reflect poverty, suffering, and oppression, but on the whole this is a happy book filled with love of life--a tribute to the creativity of the Negro people that graphically demonstrates the important contribution they have made to our culture. (Back cover).
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African American authors, African Americans, Afro-American authors, American poetry, Poetry, Anthologies, Noirs américains, Auteurs noirs américains, Poésie, Anthologie, Poésie américaine, Schwarze, Lyrik, American poetry, african american authors, American poetry (collections), 20th century, Poesía estadounidense, Autores afroamericanos, Afroamericanos, Poesía, Colecciones, African-American authors, Afro-AmericansTimes
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American Negro poetry
1964, Hill and Wang
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- 3. print., (1. American century ser. ed.)
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With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse.
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