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Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories
Presents an anthology of essays, poems, cartoons, photographs, drama, and fiction excerpts on the cultural implications of Black women and their hair.
Tenderheaded is as rich and diverse as the children of the African diaspora. With works by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and other writers of passion, persuasion, and humor.
Presents an anthology of essays, poems, cartoons, photographs, drama, and fiction excerpts on the cultural implications of Black women and their hair.
Tenderheaded is as rich and diverse as the children of the African diaspora. With works by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and other writers of passion, persuasion, and humor.
Vintage anthology of the works of thirty leading contemporary Black poets.
Poems from Johari Amini, S. E. Anderson, Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ed Bullins, Stanley Crouch, Ronda Davis, Jackie Earley, Mari Evans, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Mae Jackson, Norman Jordan, Gylan Kain, Kali, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Don L. Lee, Felipe Luciano, Clarence Major, Amus Mor, Larry Neal, David Nelson, Arthur Pfister, Clarence Reed, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, Welton Smith, Richard W. Thomas, James W. Thompson, Askia Mohammed Toure, and Quincy Troupe. Includes short bios of poets at rear. Artistic Consultant Imamu Amiri Baraka.
From today's best-known, as well as emerging, Latino writers, poet and editor Ray Gonzalez has gathered personal essays written especially for Muy Macho on machismo and masculinity. The result is a rich and exciting collection of men talking about themselves, about other men, about their wives and lovers, about their fathers and their sons.
Thirty-two stories look at the presence and place of lesbians and gays in the history of African American Literature.
What does it mean to be Black? What does it mean to be African-American? What is the black experience?
The spirited voices of twenty-six Black poets speak to these and other questions in fifty collected poems that explore the Black world.
Vintage anthology including poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography.
Contributors include:
Nikki Giovanni
Langston Hughes
Malcolm X
Dick Gregory
Lorraine Hansberry
Gwendolyn Brooks
and more!
The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this groundbreaking volume of original essays, poems, and stories, a chorus of outspoken women -- many who would become leaders in their fields: bestselling novelist Alice Walker, poets Audre Lorde and Nikki Giovanni, writer Paule Marshall, activist Grace Lee Boggs, and musician Abbey Lincoln among them -- tackled issues surrounding race and sex, body image, the economy, politics, labor, and much more. Their words still resonate with truth, relevance, and insight today.
The Poetry of Black America
Works by Afro-American poets express their anger, despair, and hopes, and sense of pride for their race.
American Negro Poetry
A fundamental collection of Black American verse.
The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology includes over 150 selections from a decade of American Book Award-winning poetry. Authors represented include Ai, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Edward Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Kenny, Etheridge Knight, Colleen J. McElroy, Charles Olson, Sonia Sanchez, Gary Snyder, Quincy Troupe, Terence Winch, and Elizabeth Woody. It will quickly be seen as a landmark, pioneering volume and literary event.
3000 Years of Black Poetry
Includes roots of Black poetry in Africa, from primitive song, and extends to Egypt, Latin America, the West Indies, and the rural and urban streets of our country. The poetry of Black Africa speaks directly to us over time and distance.
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature
The Black Revolution has been happening for a long time. It began decades ago with the works of great artists such as Wright and Ellison, whose prophetic books defined the self-image of the Negro in America. An anthology of Afro-American Literature. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism reflecting a potent force in American writing today. Writers included are Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Le Roi Jones, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. DuBois, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker and many others. In the powerful pose and. poetry presented here, each writer speaks with a distinctive voice-- each contributes to a growing body of work which is one of the most important and vital in American letters. The dynamic role of the Negro in the artistic life of our nation is at last being recognized: these are the spokesmen of a potent new force at a time of great controversy and creativity.
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
The defining work of the Black Arts Movement, Black Fire is at once a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document. Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political leaders, capture the social and cultural turmoil of the 1960s. In his new introduction, Amiri Baraka reflects — nearly four decades later — on both the movement and the book.