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160 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Black Poets in America

Edited by Woodie King, Jr.

The 16 black poets whose works are included in The Forerunners: Black Poets in America form a bridge between the creative optimists of the Harlem Renaissance years and the poetic activists of the 1960s and 1970s. Their poems, collected here by Woodie King, Jr., move beyond the poetry of reaction to that which finds its resolutions and meanings in black history. There is poetry of Africa, joy, protest, celebration, and resignation—poetry that looks to the past as well as to the future.  Kings assembles contributions from the following: Samuel Allen, Russell Atkins, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Margaret Bur­roughs, Margaret Danner, Frank Marshall Davis, Owen Dodson, Robert Hayden, Lance Jeffers, Oliver LaGrone, Naomi Long Madgett, Dudley Randall, Margaret Walker, and Jay Wright. These pioneering artists’ collected personal reflections about the future, both for their poetry and themselves as imaginative synthesizers of the craft, make this anthology unique.

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