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American Negro Poetry / Edited with an Introduction by Arna Bontemps.
LIBRA - Rare PS591.N4 B58 1964 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American century series
- American century series ; AC71
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- American poetry--20th century.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 197 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Third Printing.
- Other Title:
- American Negro Poetry: an anthology
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, 1964.
- Contents:
- James Weldon Johnson
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- William Stanley Braithwaite
- Angeline W. Grime
- Anne Spencer
- Effie Lee Newsome
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Fenton Johnson
- Claude McKay
- Jean Toomer
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Frank Horne
- Marcus B. Christian
- Sterling A. Brown
- Clarissa Scott Delany
- Langston Hughes
- Gwendolyn R. Bennett
- Arna Bontemps
- Countee Cullen
- Donald Jeffrey Hayes
- Jonathan Brooks
- Frank Marshall Davis
- Waring Cuney
- Helene Johnson
- Richard Wright
- Charles Enoch Wheeler
- Pauli Murray
- Robert Hayden
- Dudley Randall
- Owen Dodson
- Leslie M. Collins
- Margaret Walker
- Frank Yerby
- Samuel Allen
- Catherine Cater
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Bruce McM. Wright
- Alfred A. Duckett
- Myron O'Higgins
- M. Carl Holman
- Yvonne Gregory
- Margaret Danner
- G. C. Oden
- Mari E. Evans
- Oliver Pitcher
- James P. Vaughn
- Russel Atkins
- Ted Joans
- William Browne
- James A. Emanuel
- Conrad Kent Rivers
- LeRoi Jones
- Clarence Major
- Julia Fields
- Horace Julian Bond
- Carl Wendell Hines, Jr.
- Notes:
- "First Edition May 1963 ... Third Printing (First American Century Series Edition) September 1964."--T.p. verso.
- Cover design by Oliver Lundquist.
- "171 poems by fifty-five poets covering a span of seventy years"--Cover.
- Contains biographical notes (pages 187-194)
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has stamped address of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "Fourth Printing February 1965".
- OCLC:
- 1264549219
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