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Author : James Weldon Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years & Other Poems written by James Weldon Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Weldon Johnson
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513295594
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years and Other Poems written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) is a collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson. Although less popular than his book God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927), Johnson’s second poetry collection showcases his talents as a rising star of African American literature. Including some poems that would be featured in The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), an influential anthology compiled and edited by the poet himself, Fifty Years and Other Poems remains essential to Johnson’s legacy as a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. “Fifty Years” opens the collection with an ode to emancipation, a starting point from which millions of men, women, and children were given the opportunity, however fragile it was, to pursue better lives. Rather than give thanks for freedom granted, however, Johnson implores his fellow Black Americans to remain proud, assured that liberty is their hard-earned right: “This land is ours by right of birth, / This land is ours by right of toil; / We helped to turn its virgin earth, / Our sweat is in its fruitful soil.” Hopeful and resilient, Johnson reflects on his own place in this history of struggle, paying particular heed to his status as a poet, his ability to sing despite centuries of violent oppression. In his poem “O Black and Unknown Bards,” he asks “O black and unknown bards of long ago, / How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?” Recognizing the need for a reconciliation between the long tradition of black culture and the overwhelming erasure of his own contemporary artists, Johnson highlights the efforts of those poets such as himself, who “Within [their] dark-kept soul[s], burst into song.” >With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of James Weldon Johnson’s Fifty Years and Other Poems is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : James Weldon Johnson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442929049
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Fifty years and Other Poems (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by James Weldon Johnson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Academy Of American Poets
Publisher : Laurel
ISBN 13 : 0440218772
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of American Poetry written by Academy Of American Poets and published by Laurel. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seer, critic, lover, madwoman--the poet's sensibility gives us a chance to experience them all. This rich, wide-ranging collection of work by scores of America's contemporary poets brings you both wisdom and entertainment in short verse. In it are represented, with one poem each, the chancellors, fellows, and award winners of the Academy of American Poets since 1934. The result is a unique sampler of the various literary styles and themes that have left their marks on the past five decades. Fifty Years of American Poetry gives readers the opportunity to hear familiar voices and new ones--and encounter the great American poems that have captured both our minds and our hearts. The Academy of American Poets has as its stated purpose ''To encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of American poetry..." This was never limited to poets of any particular school, method, or category of poetry so this anthology is as representative a cross-section of American poetry in the last 50 years as any of its kind. The Academy is not a stodgy eastem provincial institution. It encourages young poets, recognizes the importance of change and growth in the poetry of America, and believes that poetry is not for poets only. This anthology was compiled on this basis. Fifty Years Of American Poetry is not only educational, but also inspirational, hopefully imbuing everyone who reads it with a sense of the dynamic and development of American poetry in the last half century. The Academy of American Poets is the only institution which could compile such a unique anthology because it is the oniy group which has consistently played a large part in the American poetry scene through its patronage to poets and its mission to make poetry an accessible and vital part of the American literary landscape. -->
Author : James Weldon Johnson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442929022
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Fifty years and Other Poems (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) written by James Weldon Johnson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Dickman
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320401
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book 50 American Plays (Poems) written by Michael Dickman and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality." —The New Yorker Identical twins Michael and Matthew Dickman once invented their own language. Now they have invented an exhilarating book of poem-plays about the fifty states. Pointed, comic, and surreal, these one-page vignettes feature unusual staging and an eclectic cast of characters—landforms, lobsters, and historical figures including Duke Ellington, Sacajawea, Judy Garland, and Kenneth Koch, the avant-garde spirit informing this book introduced by playwright John Guare. "Lucky in Kansas" Judy Garland: This is always the worst part Tin Man: The coming back Judy Garland: Yes, it fucking sucks, it's depressing as shit The Lion: Well, we're lucky to still be employed at this farm Straw Man: I wouldn't call it lucky The Lion: We were lucky to get back Straw Man: That's not really lucky either I don't think you know what lucky means Judy Garland: It's funny what you miss Tin Man: The running Judy Garland: The flying Tin Man: The flying monkeys Judy Garland: The beautiful flying monkeys above the endless emeralds the unbelievably green world Michael Dickman and Matthew Dickman are identical twins who were born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Michael received the 2010 James Laughlin Award for his second collection Flies (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Matthew won the prestigious APR/Honickman Award for his debut volume, All-American Poem.
Author : Jason Shinder
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374173432
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Poem that Changed America written by Jason Shinder and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections from America's prominent writers on the seminal poem "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg, on the eve of its fiftieth anniversary.
Author : Jay Amberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970841605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)
Download or read book 52 Poems for Men written by Jay Amberg and published by . This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every poem in this collection speaks deeply and directly to men, capturing precious moments, powerful insights, and honest glimpses of life. The themes are universal: birth, death, love, loss, war, beauty, and family. Both classic and contemporary poetic masters are represented, including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Langston Hughes, and Dylan Thomas. Each poet speaks to men in voices and language they trust and understand, without using contrived poetic forms, avant-garde imagery, or esoteric references. This powerful anthology will leave no reader unmoved.
Author : Marjorie Perloff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226660592
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Frank O'Hara written by Marjorie Perloff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-03-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously known as an art-world figure, but now regarded as an important poet, Frank O'Hara is examined in this study. It traces the poet's "French connection" and the influence of the visual arts on his work. This edition includes a new introduction with a reconsideration of O'Hara's lyric.
Author : Tracy K. Smith
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978673
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book American Journal written by Tracy K. Smith and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities and urban centers, laments of loss in war and in grief, experiences of immigrants, outcries at injustices, and poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another. Taking its title from a poem by Robert Hayden, the first African American appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, American Journal investigates our time with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Among the fifty poets included are: Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Matthew Dickman, Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Joy Harjo, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Robin Coste Lewis, Ada Límon, Layli Long Soldier, Erika L. Sánchez, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Brian Turner, Charles Wright, and Kevin Young.
Author : Sheila E. Murphy
Publisher : Unlikely Books
ISBN 13 : 0998892505
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Ghazals 1-59 and Other Poems written by Sheila E. Murphy and published by Unlikely Books. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including the complete collaborative poems of Sheila E. Murphy and the late Michelle Greenblatt; three free-verse poems and 59 American ghazals. With a Foreword by Vincent A. Cellucci.
Author : Margaret Britton Vaughn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962410017
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Grand Ole Saturday Nights written by Margaret Britton Vaughn and published by . This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wharton Lowe
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496848616
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Black Hibiscus written by John Wharton Lowe and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Simone A. James Alexander, José Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe, Noelle Morrissette, Paul Ortiz, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Genevieve West, and Belinda Wheeler The state of Florida has a rich literary and cultural history, which has been greatly shaped by many different ethnicities, races, and cultures that call the Sunshine State home. Little attention has been paid, however, to the key role of African Americans in Floridian history and culture. The state’s early population boom came from immigrants from the US South, and many of them were African Americans. Interaction between the state’s ethnic communities has created a unique and vibrant culture, which has had, and continues to have, a significant impact on southern, national, and hemispheric life and history. Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary begins by exploring Florida’s colonial past, focusing particularly on interactions between maroons who escaped enslavement, and on Albery Whitman’s The Rape of Florida, which also links Black people and Native Americans. Contributors consider film, folklore, and music, as well as such key Black writers as Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Gwendolyn Bennett, Colson Whitehead, and Edwidge Danticat. The volume features Black Floridians’ role in the civil rights movement and Black contributions to the celebrated Florida Writers’ Project. Contributors include literary scholars, historians, film critics, art historians, anthropologists, musicologists, political scientists, artists, and poets.
Author : Jean Wagner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252003417
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Black Poets of the United States written by Jean Wagner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
Author : Verity Jones
Publisher : Crown House Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785834517
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 10 to 13 (Opening Doors series) written by Verity Jones and published by Crown House Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 10 to 13 takes Bob Cox's award-winning 'Opening Doors' series into bold new territories, providing a treasury of techniques and strategies all carefully selected to support the design of a deeper, more creative and more expansive curriculum. Together with Leah Crawford and Verity Jones, Bob has compiled this rich resource to help teachers enhance their learners' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths. It includes 15 ready-to-use units of work covering a range of inspiring poetry and prose from across the literary tradition, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox. Bob, Leah and Verity's innovative ideas on theory, best practice and how to cultivate a pioneering classroom spirit are all integrated into the lesson suggestions, which have been designed for both the teacher's and the learners' immediate benefit. Together they empower teachers to explore with their learners the scope and depth of literature capable of inspiring high standards and instilling a love of language in its many forms. Furthermore, they help teachers to lay down intricate curricular pathways that will prompt their pupils to better enjoy literature, read and analyse texts with a greater sense of curiosity, and write with more originality. The book includes a great range of texts both as the core of each unit and as link reading, incorporating some contemporary texts to show how past and present co-exist - and how various literary styles can be taught using similar principles, all of which are open to further adaptation. The authors have also suggested key concepts around which the curriculum can be built, with the units providing examples with which you can work. All of the extracts and illustrations you will need in order to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable, and the book also includes a helpful glossary of key terms.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827876
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The New Negro written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old Negro, and declaring that the New Negro was capable of high achievement, black writers tried to revolutionize how whites viewed blacks--and how blacks viewed themselves. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of "the race," the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction and World War II, as well as a central idea of the Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro collects more than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and representation in African American culture. These readings--by writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alain Locke, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright--discuss the trope of the New Negro, and the milieu in which this figure existed, from almost every conceivable angle. Political essays are joined by essays on African American fiction, poetry, drama, music, painting, and sculpture. More than fascinating historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way African American identity and history are still understood today.
Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Negro History: 1918 written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journal of Negro History: 1918 is a groundbreaking historical collection that delves into the African American experience during the early 20th century. Compiled by various authors, this anthology provides a detailed and insightful look into the struggles, achievements, and contributions of the African American community. The book is written in a scholarly style, with meticulous research and analysis that showcases the writers' dedication to uncovering the true history of the time period. This edition of The Journal of Negro History serves as a valuable resource for understanding the cultural and societal landscape of the era, making it essential reading for anyone interested in African American history and civil rights movements.
