The poetry of Black America, anthology of the 20th century / Edited by Arnold Adoff. Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adoff, Arnold, editor.

Contributor:

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, writer of introduction.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 552 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973.

Contents:

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

James Weldon Johnson

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

William Stanley Braithwaite

Leslie Pinckney Hill

Angelina Weld Grimké

Anne Spencer

Jessie Redmond Fauset

Ray Garfield Dandridge

Walter Everette Hawkins

Effie Lee Newsome

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Fenton Johnson

Claude McKay

Jean Toomer

Joseph Seaman Cotter, Jr.

Melvin B. Tolson

Frank Horne

Lewis Alexander

Sterling A. Brown

Clarissa Scott Delaney

Langston Hughes

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

Arna Bontemps

Countee Cullen

Donald Jeffrey Hayes

Frank Marshall Davis

Helene Johnson

Richard Wright

Pauli Murray

Robert Hayden

Owen Dodson

Margaret Danner

Dudley Randall

John Henrik Clarke

Margaret Walker

Ray Durem

Gwendolyn Brooks

Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey)

Nanina Alba

Myron O'Higgins

Bruce McM. Wright

Alfred A. Duckett

Lance Jeffers

M. Carl Holman

James A. Emanuel

Adam David Miller

Naomi Long Madgett

Gloria C. Oden

Mari Evans

Oliver Pitcher

Zack Gilbert

Russell Atkins

Bette Darcie Latimer

Hoyt W. Fuller

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Sarah Webster Fabio

Ted Joans

Sun Ra

Raymond R. Patterson

Sarah E. Wright

Carl Gardner

Gerald W. Barrax

Herbert Martin

Etheridge Knight

Conrad Kent Rivers

Calvin C. Hernton

Audre Lorde

Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

Quandra Prettyman

Joseph White

Bob Kaufman

Henry Dumas

James W. Thompson

Jay Wright

A. B. Spellman

Sonia Sanchez

Johari Amini

Sam Cornish

Clarence Major

June Jordan

Lucille Clifton

Lebert Bethune

Eugene Redmond

Michael S. Harper

Julia Fields

Norman Jordan

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Ishmael Reed

Askia Muhammad Touré

Jayne Cortez

Primus St. John

Ed Roberson

Julius Lester

Norman Henry Pritchard II

Al Young

Richard W. Thomas

Welton Smith

Lawrence McGaugh

Lennox Raphael

Joe Johnson

Sterling Plumpp

Rob Penny

Fred Johnson

De Leon Harrison

Tom Weatherly

Conyus

Doughtry Long

F. J. Bryant, Jr.

David Henderson

Don L. Lee

Carolyn M. Rodgers

Ebon (Dooley)

William J. Harris

S. E. Anderson

Quincy Troupe

Nikki Giovanni

Charles Lynch

K. Curtis Lyle

Ron Welburn

Charlie Cobb

Barbara Mahone

Alice Walker

D. L. Graham

Lorenzo Thomas

Stanley Crouch

Carole Gregory Clemmons

Calvin Forbes

August Wilson

Alvin Saxon (Ojenke)

Mae Jackson

L. V. Mack

Felipe Luciano

Wayne Moreland

Pearl Cleage Lomax

Charles Cooper

Richard E. Grant

Victor Hernandez Cruz

Djangatolum (Lloyd M. Corbin, Jr.

Larry Thompson

Angelo Lewis

Elouise Loftin

Julianne Perry.

Notes:

"Jacket painting: detail from 'Trash' by Benny Andrews."

Includes "Bibliographical notes": pages [517]-538 and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: has 2 leaves of photocopies poems by Paul Vesey and brief biographical sketch laid in.

Banks Collection copy has 2 leaves of poems photocopied from 'Down Nigger Paved Streets' by William a. Thigpen, Jr. laid in.

ISBN:

0060200898

0060200901

OCLC:

645232