Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United Stat

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a

In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave songs'i

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which A