African Americans: Creating Voice from the Written Word: Poets

Collected works of Maya Angelou.

Discover the most enduring works of legendary poet Gwendolyn Brooks—the first black author to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Rita Dove's poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage - from the shimmer of an operatic soprano to Bessie Smith's mournful wail; from paradise lost to angel food cake; from hotshots at the local shooting range to the Negro jazz band in World War I whose music conquered Europe before the Allied advance.

The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career.

The poetry of Black America; anthology of the 20th century. introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century.

Nineteen new poems as well as selections from the author'searlier collections explore human suffering, the tragedy of violence, andtheological mysteries.

The Chameleon Couch is also one of Yusef Komunyakaa's most personal to date.The book moves seamlessly across cultural and historical boundaries, evoking Komunyakaa's capacity for cultural excavation, through artifact and place.

A selection of the best of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry and prose.

This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life."