March 25th, 2009

african poetry books
Where can I find books of poetry African American?

trying to find a book of poetry for my wife's Anniversery our first.

Can not go wrong with Maya Angelou. She's the popular one nowadays.

Gus Ferguson reads poetry from Holding Pattern

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The Collected Poetry (CARAF Books: Caribbean & African


The Collected Poetry (CARAF Books: Caribbean & African


£26.12


The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English (Africa


The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English (Africa


£4.93


Treasury of African Love Poems and Proverbs Book NEW


Treasury of African Love Poems and Proverbs Book NEW


£10.64


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (Penguin ...


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (Penguin …


£24.18


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry | Gerald Moor


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry | Gerald Moor


£15.23


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, Good Conditi


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, Good Conditi


£1.00


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (Penguin Twen


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (Penguin Twen


£8.84


African Poetry for Schools: Bk. 2, , Good Book


African Poetry for Schools: Bk. 2, , Good Book


£16.18


The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry NEW PB ING


The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry NEW PB ING


£11.27


The Heritage of African Poetry, I Okpewho, Good Book


The Heritage of African Poetry, I Okpewho, Good Book


£2.88


Poems of Maya Angelou


Poems of Maya Angelou


£1.08



The Snowy Day (Picture Puffin)


The Snowy Day (Picture Puffin)


£1.29



Veiled Sentiments: Updated with a New Preface: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society


Veiled Sentiments: Updated with a New Preface: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society


£14.01



Brown Angels


Brown Angels


$7.91


A collection of early 20th-century photographs of African-American children, accompanied by short verses.

In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall


In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall


$8.86


A collection of poetry about fathers and their children. Contributors include Folami Abiade, Dakaria Hru, and Angela Johnson. Mixed-media illustrations accompany the verses.

Words With Wings


Words With Wings


$12.78


A collection of poetry and artwork by African-American authors and artists. Contributors include poets Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, and Langston Hughes and artists Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.

Black Voices


Black Voices


$8.86


This anthology collects an array of writing by African Americans, including James Baldwin. W.E.B. Dubois, Leroi Jones and others. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism are represented.

Black Nature (Paperback)


Black Nature (Paperback)


$22.23


Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of …

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou


The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou


$17.64


Angelou`s poems are beloved for their humor, their contagious musical rhythms, and their celebration of African-American culture

The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry (Hardcover)


The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry (Hardcover)


$45


A literary portrait of contrasting visions and styles covers the key issues important to the African-American experience, including poetry on slavery, the South, protest and resistance, music and religion, spirituality, sexuality and love, and the idea…

Complete Writings


Complete Writings


$11.09


A definitive collection of writings by the eighteenth-century American slave and author includes her letters, poetry, translations, short fiction, and essays, along with poetry by some of Wheatley`s contemporary African-American poets–Lucy Terry, J

The Children of Children Keep Coming (Book)


The Children of Children Keep Coming (Book)


$17.4


An illustrated, epic Griot poetry anthology written in the tradition of The Iliad and The Odyssey honors the African-American experience from the middle passages and slavery through the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

Morning Haiku (Hardcover)


Morning Haiku (Hardcover)


$15.4


A renowned African American poet–recipient of the Robert Frost medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award–presents an innovative collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns th…

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry


The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry


$12.12


Culled from twenty-seven different countries, this comprehensive, updated survey of the poetry of modern-day Africa features the work of ninety-nine poets, including L. S. Senghor, Augustinho Neto, Christopher Okigbo, and many others. Original. 10,0

Please (Paperback)


Please (Paperback)


$11.06


PLEASE explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, PLEASE is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African…

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry


The Vintage Book of African American Poetry


$10.74


Of all the books that have come through our office for possible review this year, the one I have found most useful has been THE

Them (Paperback)


Them (Paperback)


$11.09


Passing his time reading books and hanging out with fellow locals in his ramshackle Atlanta community, forty-something African-American Barlowe witnesses local tensions between his neighbors and white newcomers who are promoting redevelopment efforts. …

Lift Every Voice and Sing


Lift Every Voice and Sing


$11.88


Twenty-two b&w photographs of African-American men, women, and children illustrate the lyrics of the song named The Negro National Anthem by the NAACP.

Maya Angelou


Maya Angelou


$6.92


Angelou’s poems are beloved for their humor, their contagious musical rhythms, and their celebration of African-American culture

Our Miss Brooks


Our Miss Brooks


$16.62


A collection of evocative poems from the first African-American winner of the Pulitzer Prize captures a compassionate and illuminating response to a world both special and universal. Original.

Blues Poems


Blues Poems


$10.1


Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to "Sweet Home Chicago," forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology&#82

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry


Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry


$74.25


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Egyptian Sudanese American (Paperback)


Egyptian Sudanese American (Paperback)


$12.31


A powerful new collection of poems by Kola Boof that chronicles the African origins of human hair.


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