Angles of ascent
Subtitle: a Norton anthology of contemporary African American poetry
By: edited by Charles Henry Rowell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 617
ISBN-13: 9780393339406
Subjects: American poetry; African American authors
Description: "This landmark anthology brings together for the first time more than three hundred poems by over seventy African American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Ai, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Tretheway, Major Jackson, and Kevin Young. Angles of Ascent looks to the immediate past of contemporary African American poetry, including the influence of Modernism in the 1950's and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's, before turning toward the current thriving literary sceneand beyond. General readers and specialists alike will treasure this collection for its diverse readings of humanity by modern and contemporary African American poets as well as its comprehensive introductions and commentary."--
Notes: Includes index.