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Black sister : poetry by black American women, 1746-1980 / edited with an introduction by Erlene Stetson.
LIBRA - Special PS591.N4 B525
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stetson, Erlene, 1949- editor.
- Series:
- Midland book ; MB268.
- A Midland Book ; MB268
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- African American women--Poetry.
- African American women.
- Women.
- United States.
- American poetry--Women authors.
- Women--United States--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 312 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981.
- Contents:
- I. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Poets. Lucy Terry; Phillis Wheatley; Ada; Charlotte Forten [Grimké]; Sojourner Truth; Frances E. W. Harper; Henrietta Cordelia Ray; Clara Ann Thompson; Ann Plato
- II. Twentieth-Century Poets. Rosalie Jonas; Lucy Ariel Williams; Georgia Douglas Johnson; Angelina Weld Grimké; Jessie Redmon Fauset; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Anne Spencer; Gwendolyn B. Bennett; Helene Johnson; Carrie Williams Clifford; Bessie Calhoun Bird; Pauli Murray; Mae V. Cowdery; Margaret Walker; Gwendolyn Brooks; May Miller; Margaret Goss Burroughs; Gloria C. Oden; Naomi Long Madgett; Margaret Danner; Kattie M. Cumbo; Sarah Webster Fabio; Mari Evans; Alice S. Cobb; June Jordan; Jayne Cortez; Della Burt; Fareedah Allah; Carolyn M. Rodgers; Linda Piper; Carole C. Gregory; Jo Ann Hall-Evans; Johari M. Kunjufu; Irma McClaurin; Audre Lorde; Gayl Jones; Alice Walker; Pinkie Gordon Lane
- Nikki Giovanni; Patricia Parker; Sonia Sanchez; Lucille Clifton; Patricia Jones; Sherley Anne Williams; Maya Angelou; Ntozake Shange; Thadious M. David; Melba Joyce Byrd; Colleen J. McElroy.
- Notes:
- "I want to make the poetry of black women visible and accessible to black and white sisters everywhere, to scholars in high schools, colleges, and universities, and to the casual reader."--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312).
- ISBN:
- 0253305128
- 025320268X
- OCLC:
- 7460515
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