The Vintage Book of African American Poetry: 200 Years of Vision, Struggle, Power, Beauty, and Triumph from 50 Outstanding Poets, Paperback - Michael

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Over 150 of the 20th century's most significant poems.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Michael SchmidtNumber of pages: 224Publication date: ...

DescriptionAfrican American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical hist...

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This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterp...

Publisher: SkiraAuthor(s): Sylvia FerinoIllustration(s): 250 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 249 x 309 x ...

African-American poetry and art take wing and soar in this collection compiled by Belinda Rochelle.With work that spans the nineteenth century thro...

An anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with th...

The Forward Book of Poetry 2018 showcases a selection of the best contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including ...

An eye-opening illustrated review in words and pictures of the transition from steam to diesel during the 1950s and 60s as experienced by former Br...

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The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and...

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Presents an anthology of Irish American poetry. This book collects the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poe...

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The Poet's Notebook brings together excerpts from the working notebooks of twenty-six American poets. Unsystematic, spontaneous, irreverent, intens...

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American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political represen...

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Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

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