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Black nature: four centuries of African American nature poetry

By Phillis Wheatley, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Nelson, June Jordan, Ishmael Reed, Margaret Walker, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Lucille Clifton, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nikki Giovanni, Sherley Anne Williams, Arna Bontemps, Rita Dove, Al Young, Janice N. Harrington, Patricia Smith, Anthony Walton, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Natasha Trethewey, Terrance Hayes, Carl Phillips, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Roberson, Harryette Mullen, Reginald Shepherd, Michael S. Harper, Jackson, Claudia Rankine, Ravi Howard, Kwame Alexander, Cornelius Eady, Sean Hill, Melvin Dixon, Elizabeth Alexander, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Gregory Pardlo, Wendy S. Walters, Robert Hayden, Jean Toomer, Douglas Kearney, Wanda Coleman, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Thylias Moss, Anne Spencer, Camille T. Dungy, Tara Betts, Myronn Hardy, Toi Derricotte, Claude McKay, Evie Shockley, Ross Gay, Shane Book, Frank X. Walker, Indigo Moor, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Kendra Hamilton, Mark McMorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Lenard Moore, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Stephanie Pruitt, Tim Seibles, Afaa Weaver, Sterling A. Brown, Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, James A. Emanuel, C. S. Giscombe, George Moses Horton, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Shara McCallum, George Marion McClellan, G. E. Patterson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Albery Whitman, Toni Wynn

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Summary

This anthology of verse by ninety-three writers spans the history of black poetry in America, with the earliest pieces by Phillis Wheatley and the latest by Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove. The 180 selections are presented in themed cycles rather than chronologically. 2009

Title Details

ISBN 9780820334318
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Copyright Date 2009
Book number 4422207

Audio details for CELA title

Narrator Dan Bloom
Duration 10 hours 34 minutes 4 seconds
Audio producer Talking Book Publishers
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