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Series
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This biography introduces readers to the five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, Walter Dean Myers. Readers will learn about Myer's childhood in Harlem, his difficulty in school with a speech impediment, and the inspiration behind his award-winning titles." -- From publisher website.
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
liii, 617 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This landmark anthology brings together for the first time more than three hundred poems by over seventy African American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Ai, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Tretheway, Major Jackson, and Kevin Young. Angles of Ascent looks to the immediate past of contemporary African American poetry, including the influence of Modernism in the 1950's and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The authors argue that African American literature did not develop apart from the canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way. They trace the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This Is the Honey is a rich and abundant offering of language from the poets giving voice to generations of resilient joy. This essential collection, contains poems exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise. This Is the Honey drips with poignant and delightful imagery, music, and raised fists. Fresh, memorable, and deeply moving, this definitive collection a must-have for any lover of language and a gift for our time. --
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xviii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding...