October Journey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Margaret

Series:

Broadside poets.

Broadside poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Broadside Press, 1973.

Summary:

Fiftieth anniversary edition of poetry collection by Margaret Walker. Walker Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander July 7, 1915 - November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.

Contents:

October journey

Harriet Tubman

Epitaph for my father

Ode on the occasion of the inauguration of the sixth president of Jackson State College

I want to write

Dear are the names that charmed me in my youth

For Mary McLeod Bethune

For Paul Laurence Dunbar

For Gwen, 1969

A litany from The dark people.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.