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Title:

African American poetry / edited by Arnold Rampersad and Marcellus Blount ; illustrated by Karen Barbour.

Publisher:

Sterling Children's Books,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

45 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--African American authors--Juvenile poetry.
African Americans--Juvenile poetry.

Other Authors:

Rampersad, Arnold.
Blount, Marcellus.
Barbour, Karen, ill.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

My People / Langston Hughes George Moses Horton, Myself / George Moses Horton -- Songs for the People / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Dawn -- To One Coming North / Claude McKay -- The Black Finger / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Exultation / Mae V. Cowdery -- Song of the Son / Jean Toomer -- Tableau / Countee Cullen -- I, Too / Langston Hughes -- The Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Haiku 37/ Haiku 64 / Richard Wright -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- The Moose Wallow -- Pete at the Zoo / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Bean Eaters -- I Want to Write / Margaret Walker -- The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom / Alice Walker -- Winter Poem / Nikki Giovanni -- A Round / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Poem No. 1 -- My Father's First Baseball Game / Afaa Michael Weaver -- A Meditation for My Son -- The Poet / Lucille Clifton -- Imagination / James Baldwin -- Caged Bird / Maya Angelou -- Alone / Michael S. Harper -- Plum blossom plum jam / June Jordan -- Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett -- Obsidian / Melvin Dixon -- Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander -- My People / Langston Hughes

Summary:

Presents a collection of poems by African-American poets, including Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Alexander.

Series:

Poetry for young people

ISBN:

1402716893
9781402716898

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

XUPC157 -- Griswold Public Library (Griswold)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)