Modern Black poets
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays.
By: Edited by Donald B. Gibson.
Series: Twentieth century views; A Spectrum book
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; African Americans in literature.
Table of contents: value: Gibson, D. B. Introduction.; value: Redding, J. S. The new Negro poet in the twenties.; value: Randall, D. The Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties.; value: Gibson, D. B. The good Black poet and the good gray poet: the poetry of Hughes and Whitman.; value: Emanuel, J. A. Christ in Alabama: religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes.; value: Collier, E. W. I do not marvel, Countee Cullen.; value: A poet's odyssey: Melvin B. Tolson.; value: Davis, C. T. Robert Hayden's use of history.; value: Jacobus, L. A. Imamu Amiri Baraka: the quest for moral order.; value: Taylor, C. Baraka as poet.; value: Palmer, R. R. The poetry of three revolutionists: Don L. Lee, Sonia Sanchez, and Nikki Giovanni.; value: Davis, A. P. The new poetry of Black hate.; value: Humanistic protest in recent black poetry.; value: Bibliography (p. 167-181)