I am the darker brother : an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans / edited by Arnold Adoff ; drawings by Benny Andrews ; foreword by Charlemae Rollins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adoff, Arnold, editor.

Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006, illustrator.

Rollins, Charlemae Hill, writer of foreword.

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

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : The Macmillan Company, [1968]

Summary:

Poems on aspects of race or racial problems by well-known Negro poets, including Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson.

Contents:

Like I Am. Me and the Mule / Langston Hughes; The Rebel / Mari Evans; We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks; Cross / Langston Hughes; Aunt Jane Allen / Fenton Johnson; The Whipping / Robert Hayden; Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden; A Song in the Front Yard / Gwendolyn Brooks; Flowers of Darkness / Frank Marshall Davis; Juke Box Love Song / Langston Hughes; The Gory of the Day Was in Her Face / James Wildon Johnson; Brozeville Man with a Belt in the Back / Gwendolyn Brooks; Madhouse / Calvin C. Hernton

Genealogy. Each morning / Leroi Jones; A Moment Please / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey); The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes; Southern Mansion / Arna Bontemps; O Daedalus, Fly Away Home / Robert Hayden; October Journey / Margaret Walker; Dust Bowl / Robert A. Davis; A Ballad of Remembrance / Robert Hayden; Middle Passage / Robert Hayden

Shall Be Remembered. Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden; Runagate Runagate / Robert Hayden; Memorial Wreath / Dudley Randall; Vativide / Myron O'Higgins; A Poem for Black Hearts / Leroi Jones; To Richard Wright / Conrad Kent Rivers; American Gothic / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey); When Mahalia Sings / Quandra Prettyman; Yardbird's Skull / Owen Dodson

If We Must Die. If We Must Die / Claude McKay; The Lynching / Claude McKay; "So Quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill; The Daybreakers / Arna Bontemps; Song for a Dark Girl / Langston Hughes; Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown; Between the World and Me / Richard Wright

I Am the Darker Brother. I, Too, Sing America / Langston Hughes; A Black Man Talks of Reaping / Arna Bontemps; From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen; On Passing Two Negroes on a Dark Country Road Somewhere in Georgia / Conrad Kent Rivers; Beehive / Jean Toomer; Tired / Fenton Jenkins; Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar; Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One / Owen Dodson; If the Stars Should Fall / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey); For a Lady I Know / Countee Cullen; Incident / Countee Cullen; We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar; Hokku: In the Falling Snow / Richard Wright; Yet Do I Marvel / Countee Cullen; The Train Runs Late to Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers; Award / Ray Durem; Status Symbol / Mari Evans; Black Is a Soul / Joseph White

The Hope of Your Unborn. The Still Voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers; Dream Variation / Langston Hughes; Poems for My Brother Kenneth, VII / Owen Dodson; In Time of Crisis / Raymond Richard Patterson; The Noonday April Sun / George Love; After the Winter / Claude McKay; Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France / Conrad Kent Rivers; For My People / Margaret Walker.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has reinforced binding.

Banks Collection copy is "Fourth Printing, 1969".

Banks Collection copy has stamp of "Anacostia Neighborhood Museum ... Washington, D.C."

OCLC:

270243