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African American poets : lives, works, and sources / Joyce Pettis.
Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) PS153.N5 P48 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pettis, Joyce Owens.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- African Americans in literature.
- American poetry--African American authors--Dictionaries.
- African American poets--Biography--Dictionaries.
- African American poets.
- African Americans in literature--Dictionaries.
- Genre:
- Bio-bibliography.
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 357 pages : portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Ai (1947- ) 1
- Maya Angelou (1928- ) 9
- Amiri Baraka (1934- ) 18
- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) 26
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) 32
- Sterling Brown (1901-1989) 41
- Lucille Clifton (1936- ) 49
- Wanda Coleman (1946- ) 60
- Jayne Cortez (1936- ) 66
- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) 73
- Toi Derricotte (1941- ) 81
- Rita Dove (1952- ) 89
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) 99
- Cornelius Eady (1954- ) 107
- Mari Evans (n.d.- ) 114
- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) 121
- Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806) 131
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824-1911) 134
- Michael S. Harper (1938- ) 141
- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 149
- George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) 157
- Langston Hughes (1902-1968) 162
- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886-1966) 171
- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) 177
- June Jordan (1936- ) 185
- Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) 193
- Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) 201
- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) 209
- Nathaniel Mackey (1947- ) 217
- Haki Madhubuti (1942- ) 225
- Colleen J. McElroy (1936- ) 232
- Claude McKay (1889-1948) 239
- E. Ethelbert Miller (1950- ) 247
- Thylias Moss (1954- ) 255
- Marilyn Nelson (1946- ) 262
- Dudley Randall (1914- ) 270
- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) 277
- Carolyn Rodgers (1945- ) 285
- Sonia Sanchez (1934- ) 291
- Melvin B. Tolson (1900-1966) 300
- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 307
- Quincy Troupe (1943- ) 314
- Margaret Abigail Walker (1915-1998) 322
- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) 329
- Jay Wright (1935- ) 336
- Al Young (1939- ) 344.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-352) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 031331117X
- OCLC:
- 47989987
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