Title: Modern Black poets; a collection of critical essays.
Authors: Gibson, Donald B.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Year: 1973
Subjects: American poetry Afro-American authors History and criticism.; American poetry History and criticism; American poetry African American authors History and criticism; African Americans Intellectual life; African Americans in literature
Abstract: Twelve critical essays sketch the tradition of black poets in the U.S. from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the black rage of the 1970's. Separate critiques are devoted to the work of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Melvin B. Tolson, Robert Hayden, and Imamu Amiri Baraka.
Contents: Gibson, D. B. Introduction.--Redding, J. S. The new Negro poet in the twenties.--Randall, D. The Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties.--Gibson, D. B. The good Black poet and the good gray poet: the poetry of Hughes and Whitman.--Emanuel, J. A. Christ in Alabama: religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes.--Collier, E. W. I do not marvel, Countee Cullen.--A poet's odyssey: Melvin B. Tolson.--Davis, C. T. Robert Hayden's use of history.--Jacobus, L. A. Imamu Amiri Baraka: the quest for moral order.--Taylor, C. Baraka as poet.--Palmer, R. R. The poetry of three revolutionists: Don L. Lee, Sonia Sanchez, and Nikki Giovanni.--Davis, A. P. The new poetry of Black hate.--Humanistic protest in recent black poetry.--Bibliography (p. 167-181)