Modern Black poets; a collection of critical essays. / Edited by Donald B. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Donald B., compiler.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Twentieth century views

A Spectrum book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 181 pages, 1 unnumbered page. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973.

Contents:

Introduction / by Donald B. Gibson

The New Negro Poet in the Twenties / by J. Saunders Redding

The Black Aesthetic in the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties / by Dudley Randall

The Good Black Poet and the Good Gray Poet: The Poetry of Hughes and Whitman / by Donald B. Gibson

Christ in Alabama: Religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes / by James A. Emanuel

I Do Not Marvel, Countee Cullen / by Eugenia W. Collier

A Poet's Odyssey: Melvin B. Tolson

Robert Hayden's Use of History / by Charles T. Davis

Imamu Amiri Baraka: The Quest for Moral Order / by Lee A. Jacobus

Baraka as Poet / by Clyde Taylor

The Poetry of Three Revolutionists: Don L. Lee, Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni / by R. Roderick Palmer

The New Poetry of Black Hate / by Arthur P. Davis

Humanistic Protest in Recent Black Poetry / by Richard K. Barksdale.

Notes:

"Cover design by Stanley Wyatt."

"'Modern Black Poets' is the first collection of critical essays to deal with black poetry in its own right."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-181).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is paperback edition with "Spectrum Book S-TC-106" on front cover and spine.

ISBN:

013588392X

0135883849

OCLC:

520839