The Peacock Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Sherley Anne

Series:

Wesleyan poetry program ; v. 79

The Wesleyan poetry program ; v. 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

African American women poets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 1975.

Summary:

The Peacock Poems, Sherley Anne Williams' first book of poetry, was nominated for a National Book Award. A former senior Fulbright lecturer at the University of Ghana and visiting professor at the University of Southern California and Cornell University, Williams is professor of literature at the University of California at San Diego. She had received an Emmy Award for a television performance of her poetry. She is advisory editor of Callaloo and Langston Hughes Review. Williams was graduated from California State University (B.A. 1966) and Brown University (M.A. 1972). Her home is in San Diego.

Contents:

The valley

Say hello to John

2 1/2 poems: making whole

Flo show

Drivin wheel

The collateral adjective [I sing my song in]

The peacock poems [1-3]

Listen to the drum

For Ronald King our brother

Communion in a small room

I see my life.