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Arna Bontemps
Genre Fiction Books & Literature
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.58 (d)
Pages 256
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date December 1995
ISBN 9780809015641
Book ISBN 10 0809015641
About Book

With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), an important figure during and after the Harlem Renaissance, author of more than 25 novels, and longtime librarian at Fisk University, last revised this classic anthology just before his death, adding such crucial new voices as Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Bob Kaufman, among others.

This edition, issued in 1996, reprints the poems in Bontemps's revised volume along with updated biographical notes. Nearly seventy poets are represented, their works indexed by both author and title.

The standard anthology of black American poetry that includes among the 68 poets represented: Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and Nikki Giovanni.

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From the Publisher

"[Bontemps's] most distinctive works are ringing affirmations of the human passion for freedom and the desire for social justice inherent in us all. Arnold Rampersad called him the conscience of his era and it could be fairly added that his tendency to fuse history and imagination represents his personal legacy to a collective memory."—Charles L. James, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (on the life and work of Arna Bontemps, editor of American Negro Poetry)
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