I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry

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Starting with Lucy Terry of the first 18th hundred years and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this anthology edited by Catherine Clinton catches the ability and passion of black poets. Powerful and diverse, I, Too, Sing America is a message board for voices baring their souls, speaking their minds, tracing their root base, and proclaiming their dreams.

    Each of the 25 poets is created with a brief biography and poetry records to help the listener place his or her work in framework. Included in the anthology is:
    • "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes
    • "Bars Struggle" by Lucy Terry
    • "Liberty and Tranquility" by Phillis Wheatley
    • "On Liberty and Slavery" by George Moses Horton
    • "Yes! Affect Again That Sounding String" by Wayne M. Whitfield
    • "Bury Me in a Free Land" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    • "The Melody of the Smoke" by W. E. B. Du Bois
    • "Lift Ev'ry Speech and Sing" by Wayne Weldon Johnson
    • "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
    • "The Dark colored Finger" by Angelina Weld Grimke
    • "Your World" and "Interracial" by Georgia Douglas Johnson
    • "Children of the Sunshine" by Fenton Johnson
    • "If WE SHOULD Die" and "The White House" by Claude McKay
    • "Beehive" by Jean Toomer
    • "History" and "To some Dark Young lady" by Gwendolyn Bennett
    • "A Dark colored Man Discussions of Reaping" by Arna Bontemps
    • "Harlem," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Merry-Go-Round," and "Cross" by Langston Hughes
    • "Tableau," "Saturday's Child," and "Incident" by Countee Cullen
    • "Sorrow Home" by Margaret Walker
    • "Martin Luther King Jr.," "Malcolm X," and "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
    • "Still I Surge" by Maya Angelou
    • "Rites of Passing" by Audre Lorde
    • "In the 12 months" by Amiri Baraka
    • "The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr." by Nikki Giovanni
    • "Women" by Alice Walker
    • "Primer" by Rita Dove


Category: Poetry

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Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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English
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2015-08
Author

Catherine Clinton

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