The Garden thrives : twentieth-century African-American poetry

Available as

Physical

Summary

"The Garden Thrives brings together members of the African-American literary canon, from the Harlem Renaissance's Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and Arna Bontemps to th...

"The Garden Thrives brings together members of the African-American literary canon, from the Harlem Renaissance's Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, and Arna Bontemps to the "protest" period's Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker Alexander, and Sterling Brown; from poets emerging from the civil rights movement, including Derek Walcott, Gerald Barrax, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, and Jayne Cortez, to present-day future legends like Essex Hemphill, C. S. Giscombe, and Claudia Rankine. By including a wide range of African-American poetry, exploring the presence of both rural and urban settings, the evolution of black poetic language, and the emergence of perhaps another Renaissance, Clarence Major celebrates tradition and innovation in American literature and expands our understanding of the very nature of poetry itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Show More