Includes poems by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, with commentary and a discussion of the development of African American arts known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Record details
ISBN:0805034943
Physical Description:xii, 186 pages ; 22 cm print
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :H. Holt,1996.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The song if the smoke / W.E.B. DuBois -- The Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- We wear the mask ; Sympathy ; A negro love song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson -- The negro speaks of rivers ; Dinner guest: me ; Harlem ; Dream boogie ; Dream boogie: variation ; Same in blues ; I, too ; Dream variations ; Theme for English B ; Notes on the Broadway theatre / Langston Hughes -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Heritage ; Yet do I marvel ; Incident ; Three epitaphs / Countee Cullen -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / Helene Johnson -- No images / Waring Cuney -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Frederick Douglass ; Those winter Sundays ; The whipping ; Runagate Runagate / Robert Hayden -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- A moment, please ; view from the corner / Samuel Allen -- A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi mother burns bacon ; The lovers of the poor ; Riot / Gwendolyn Brooks -- On listening to the spirituals / Lance Jeffers -- The World is full of remarkable things ; A poem for black hearts ; Look for you yesterday, here you come today / LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka -- Personal letter no. 3 / Sonia Sanchez -- Badman of the guest professor / Ishmael Reed -- When something happens /James Randall, Jr. -- A poem (for Langston Hughes) ; Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni -- It is deep / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- It's not so good to be born a girl-sometimes / Ntozake Shange
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