The Black Poets by Dudley Randall (Editor)
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: April 1985
- 384pp
- Sales Rank: 81,151
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 1985
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 384pp
- Sales Rank: 81,151
- ISBN-13: 9780553275636
- ISBN: 0553275631
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall
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April 30, 2006: I am an author and a poet and will state that this is an excellent job by Dudley Randall. The poems in this anthology flow very well. The section on the Harlem Renaissance is very pleasing know the struggles encountered and the determination of will to succeed, the poets during that era showed strength and courage and are well documented. The book is a history lesson in itself regarding poets of the past and present. There is a distinct contrasting of poets who are classified as folk and literary poets. The additional distinction between pre-renaissance and post-renaissance poets is also made in the book. Overall, the poems from poets in the anthology are outstanding and give a great blending of African-American History.
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January 29, 2002: Includes hundreds of poems by many different black poets. A very low price for very high art.
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