The Forerunners
Subtitle: Black Poets in America
Contributors: Woodie, Jr. King (Editor); Addison Gale (Editor); Dudley Randall (Editor)
Publisher: Howard University Press
Published: September 1, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780882580937
Subjects: Anthologies (multiple authors); 20th Century American Poetry; African American Literature; Poetry; History and criticism; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); 20th century; African American authors; African Americans; American poetry
First sentence: It is evident, now, in the seventies, that black poets are continuing with an increasingly sharpened sense of direction both to define and to vivify the black experience, drawing upon and utilizing a more profoundly explored heritage.