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The entrance place of wonders : poems of the Harlem Renaissance / selected by Daphne Muse ; illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PS591.N4 E58 2006 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors--Juvenile literature.
- American poetry.
- Harlem Renaissance--Juvenile literature.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- African American poets--Juvenile poetry.
- African American poets.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- [32] pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [2006]
- Summary:
- Presents a selection of poems from authors who composed their work during the Harlem Renaissance, including such poets as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson.
- Contents:
- The Wishing Game / by Annette Browne
- Tableau / by Countee Cullen
- To You / by Langston Hughes
- Sassafras Tea / by Effie Lee Newsome
- I've Learned to Sing / by Georgia Douglas Johnson
- The Gift to Sing / by James Weldon Johnson
- Your World / by Georgia Douglas Johnson
- The Runaway Kite / by Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Dream Variations / by Langston Hughes
- Rhapsody / by William Stanley Braithwaite
- Palace / by Dorothy Vena Johnson
- Slumber Song / by Alpha Angela Bratton
- Children of the Sun / by Madeline G. Allison
- The Lizard / by Gladys May Caseley-Hayford (Aquah LaLuah)
- Winter Sweetness / by Langston Hughes
- A Kindergarten Song / by Carrie W. Clifford
- Common Things / by James Alpheus Butler, Jr.
- Spring in New Hampshire / by Claude McKay
- And This from Bruin Bear / by Countee Cullen
- Next, From the Bees / by Countee Cullen.
- Notes:
- Includes an introduction to the Harlem Renaissance (1917-1935) and brief biographies of the poets.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copies 1 and 2: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0810959976 :
- 9780810959972
- OCLC:
- 62588151
- Publisher Number:
- 9780810959972 51695
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