The Vintage book of African American poetry
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Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016, editor,
Walton, Anthony, 1960- editor,

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New York : Vintage Books, 2000.

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xxxiii, 403 pages ; 21 cm

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An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess ; An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries / Jupitor Hammon --

A Mathematical Problem in Verse / Benjamin Banneker --

On Being Brought from Africa to America ; To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works ; On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield ; A Farewell to America ; An Hymn to the Morning ; An Hymn to the Evening / Phillis Wheatley --

On Liberty and Slavery ; On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom ; Early Affection ; George Moses Horton, Myself ; The Slave's Complaint ; To Eliza / George Moses Horton --

Vincent Oge / George Boyer Vashon --

America ; Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams / James Monroe Whitfield --

The Slave Mother ; Let the Light Enter ; The Slave Auction ; Songs for the People ; President Lincoln's Proclamation of Freedom ; A Double Standard 51 Bible Defence of Slavery ; Bury Me in a Free Land ; Learning to Read / Frances E. W. Harper --

Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League ; Frederick Douglass ; Ned's Psalm of Life for the Negro ; The Don't-Care Negro ; William Lloyd Garrison / Joseph Seaman Cotter, Sr. --

O Black and Unknown Bards ; Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon) ; Sence You Went Away ; The Creation (A Negro Sermon) ; The Glory of Day Was in Her Face / James Weldon Johnson --

When Malindy Sings ; A Negro Love Song ; We Wear the Mask ; Sympathy ; Dawn ; Robert Gould Shaw ; Jealous ; Frederick Douglass ; An Ante-Bellum Sermon ; Accountability ; A Plea ; Douglass ; Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes / Paul Laurence Dunbar --

The House of Falling Leaves ; The Watchers / William Stanley Braithwaite --

Letter to My Sister ; White Things ; Lines to a Nasturtium ; Dunbar ; Neighbors / Anne Spencer --

The Heart of a Woman ; I Want to Die While You Love Me ; Little Son ; Old Black Men / Georgia Douglas Johnson --

If We Must Die ; The White House ; The Harlem Dancer ; The Tropics in New York / Claude Mckay --

Cotton Song ; Evening Song ; Georgia Dusk ; Harvest Song ; November Cotton Flower ; Reapers / Jean Toomer --

Dark Symphony / Melvin B. Tolson --

After Winter ; Frankie and Johnny ; Idyll ; Long Track Blues ; Ma Rainey ; Odyssey of Big Boy ; Old Lem ; Rain ; Seeking Religion ; Slim Greer ; Slim in Atlanta ; Slim in Hell ; Southern Road ; Strong Men ; To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden / Sterling A. Brown --

To a Dark Girl ; Sonnets / Gwendolyn Bennett --

Cross ; Christ in Alabama ; Dream Variations ; Frosting ; Harlem Night Song ; Harlem Sweeties ; House in the World ; Madam and the Rent Man ; Mother to Son ; Passing Love ; Personal ; Suicide's Note ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; Theme for English B ; Tower / Langston Hughes --

A Brown Girl Dead ; Yet Do I Marvel ; From the Dark Tower ; Uncle Jim ; Death to the Poor ; Four Epitaphs ; Heritage ; Incident ; A Negro Mother's Lullaby ; Saturday's Child ; Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song / Countee Cullen --

Ice Storm ; Those Winter Sundays ; A Plague of Starlings ; October ; Frederick Douglass ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; The Islands / Robert Hayden --

For My People ; Molly Means ; October Journey / Margaret Walker --

The Bean Eaters ; Sadie and Maud ; A Song in the Front Yard ; Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery ; We Real Cool ; The Mother ; To Be in Love ; Beverly Hills, Chicago ; To an Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct ; The Blackstone Rangers ; Mentors / Gwendolyn Brooks --

Battle Report ; Grandfather Was Queer, Too ; Walking Parker Home ; Jail Poems / Bob Kaufman --

Twenty-six Ways of Looking at a Blackman / Raymond Patterson --

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen ; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II ; The Bounty / Derek Walcott --

Haiku ; The Idea of Ancestry ; For Freckle-Faced Gerald ; Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine / Etheridge Knight --

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; from Hymn to Lanie Poo: Each Morning ; A Short Speech to My Friends ; Three Modes of History and Culture ; Black Art ; Black Bourgeoisie ; Clay / AMIRI BARAKA (Leroi]Ones) --

Separation ; But What Can You Teach My Daughter ; Revolution Is One Form of Social Change / Audre Lorde --

Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament / Sonia Sanchez --

miss rosie ; the lost baby poem ; light on my mother's tongue ; to ms. ann ; why some people be mad at me sometimes ; to my friend, jerina ; white lady ; 4/30/92 for rodney king ; slaveship / Lucille Clifton --

Journey to the Place of Ghosts ; Boleros 19 ; The Healing Improvisation of Hair ; The Albuquerque Graveyard ; Love in the Weather's Bells ; Meta-A and the A of Absolutes ; The Lake in Central Park ; Desire's Persistence / Jay Wright --

Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; For Bud ; We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper ; Here Where Coltrane Is ; Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song ; Br'er Sterling and the Rocker ; Nightmare Begins Responsibility ; In Hayden's Collage ; Angola (Louisiana) ; Psalm ; Release ; The Ghost of Soul-making ; My Father's Face / Michael S. Harper --

Dualism ; .05 ; Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ; I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra ; The Reactionary Poet / Ishmael Reed --

Dance of the Infidels ; How the Rainbow Works ; The Blues Don't Change ; How Stars Start ; From Bowling Green ; Leaving Syracuse / Al Young --

Before Making Love ; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses ; Invisible Dreams / Toi Derricotte --

We Walk the Way of the New World ; the self-hatred of don I. lee / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) --

Letters from a New England Negro / Sherley Anne Williams --

My Grandfather Walks in the Woods ; Emily Dickinson's Defunct ; Tuskegee Airfield / Marilyn Nelson --

Untitled Blues ; Elegy for Thelonious ; Between Days ; Facing It ; February in Sydney ; Euphony ; My Father's Love Letters / Yusef Komunyakaa --

Winged Abyss ; Black Snake Visitation / Nathaniel Mackey --

Deep Song / Gayl Jones --

Dayton, O., the 50's & 60's / C. S. Giscombe --

"Teach Us to Number Our Days" ; Banneker ; Parsley ; The Event ; Weathering Out ; The Great Palace of Versailles ; Canary / Rita Dove --

A Reconsideration of the Blackbird ; Landscape with Saxophonist ; Lessons from a Mirror ; The Undertaker's Daughter Feels Neglect / Thylias Moss --

Crows in a Strong Wind ; Leadbelly ; Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues ; Radio ; Travelin' Shoes / Cornelius Eady --

Cortege ; Aubade for Eve Under the Arbor / Carl Phillips --

Dissidence ; Celestial Mechanics ; The Lovesong of Emmett Till ; The Summer Was Too Long / Anthony Walton --

The Venus Hottentot ; Narrative: Ali / Elizabeth Alexander --

Narcissus in Plato's Cave ; Tantalus in May ; Slaves / Reginald Shepherd.

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LC Subjects

African Americans -- Poetry.
American poetry -- African American authors -- Juvenile literature.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Poetry.

Bisac Subjects

Poetry -- Anthologies (multiple authors)

OCLC Fast Subjects

African Americans.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Poetry.

Other Subjects

Alexander, Elizabeth.
Banneker, Benjamin, -- 1731-1806.
Baraka, Amiri, -- 1934-2014.
Bennett, Gwendolyn, -- 1902-1981.
Braithwaite, William Stanley, -- 1878-1962.
Brooks, Gwendolyn, -- 1917-2000.
Brown, Sterling, A. -- 1901-1989.
Clifton, Lucille, -- 1936-2010.
Cotter, Joseph Seaman Sr -- 1861-1949.
Cullen, Countee, -- 1903-1946.
Derricotte, Toi, -- 1941-
Dove, Rita, -- 1952-
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, -- 1872-1906.
Eady, Cornelius, -- 1954-
Giscombe, C. S. -- 1950-
Hammon, Jupitor, -- 1720-
Harper, Francis E. W. -- 1825-1911.
Harper, Michael S. -- 1938-2016.
Hayden, Robert, -- 1913-1980.
Horton, George Moses, -- 1797-
Hughes, Langston, -- 1902-1967.
Johnson, Georgia Douglas, -- 1886-1966.
Johnson, James Weldon, -- 1871-1938.
Jones, Gayl, -- 1949-
Kaufman, Bob, -- 1925-1986.
Knight, Etheridge, -- 1931-1991.
Komunyakaa, Yusef, -- 1947-
Lorde, Audre, -- 1934-1992.
Mackey, Nathaniel, -- 1947-
Madhubuti, Haki, -- 1942-
Mckay, Claude, -- 1890-1948.
Moss, Thylias, -- 1954-
Nelson, Marilyn, -- 1946.
Patterson, Raymond, -- 1929-
Phillips, Carl, -- 1958-
Poetry genre.
Reed, Ishmael, -- 1938-
Sanchez, Sonia, -- 1934-
Shepherd, Reginald, -- 1963-2008.
Spencer, Anne, -- 1882-1975.
Tolson, Melvin, -- 1900-1966.
Toomer, Jean, -- 1894-1967.
Vashon, George Boyer, -- 1820-1878.
Walcott, Derek, -- 1930-
Walker, Margaret, -- 1915-1998.
Walton, Anthony, -- 1960-
Wheatley, Phillis, -- 1753-1784.
Whitfield, James Monroe, -- 1822-1871.
Williams, Sherley Anne, -- 1944-1999.
Wright, Jay, -- 1935-
Young, Al, -- 1939-

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New York : Vintage Books, 2000.

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"A Vintage original"--Title page verso.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-398).

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An anthology representing more than two hundred years of African American creative poetic endeavors features the work of fifty-two poets.

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Harper, M. S., & Walton, A. (2000). The Vintage book of African American poetry . Vintage Books.

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Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016 and Anthony Walton. 2000. The Vintage Book of African American Poetry. Vintage Books.

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Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016 and Anthony Walton. The Vintage Book of African American Poetry Vintage Books, 2000.

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Harper, Michael S., and Anthony Walton. The Vintage Book of African American Poetry Vintage Books, 2000.

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