OXF ANTHOLOGY AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY C

For over two centuries black poets have captured the sorrows joys and triumphs of the African-American experience. Reflecting their visions and styles this anthology offers nothing less than a definitive literary portrait of a people. Here are poems by writers as different as Paul Laurence Dunbar and W.E.B. Du Bois; Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes; Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka; Rita Dove and Harryette Mullen; Yusef Komunyakaa and Nathaniel Mackey. Editor Arnold Rampersad groups these poems as meditations on key issues in black culture including the idea of Africa; the South; slavery; protest and resistance; the black man woman and child; sexuality and love; music and religion; spirituality; death and transcendence.