Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States 1960s-1980s

<p>The book not only demonstrates the commonalities and differences in the literary and political strategies of Australian Aboriginal poets namely Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958- ) and African American Black Arts poets Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez (1943- ) but also examines the Aboriginal and African American trans-Pacific literary exchange promoted by their engagement in an international Black resistance movement.</p>