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1. Alice Walker
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Examines the life and work of the author of "The Color Purple" and other works which focus on the lives of black women.
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"This title introduces young readers to Amanda Gorman, best known as the first Youth Poet Laureate and for her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb."--Provided by publisher.
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Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a line from a poem by different African American poets, describing an aspect of the black experience.
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Poems explore poignant and tragic experiences from the past decade of the author's life, from the losses of her mother and sister to the shooting at Virginia Tech, where she is a professor of English.
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Anthology of fifty-six African-American Southern writers whose works address the living contradictions of the South.
10. Cane
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"The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through...
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"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves"--
14. Complete poems
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The complete poems of James Weldon Johnson are collected in the centenary year of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," considered to be his most important work.
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In a powerful poem accompanied by majestic paintings of influential men, Shange reflects on her childhood when her home was often filled with visionaries and talented artists like Ellington, DuBois, Gillespie, and Robeson.
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A selection of the influential African-American poet's works reflects her modernist style and includes numerous definitive World War II poems as well as pieces about the social and political upheavals of the 1960s.
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A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics' characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre—receiving wide literary and popular attention.
This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, Lucille Clifton, Gil Scott-Heron, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond,
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"Girls are strong and powerful alone, but even stronger when they work to uplift one another. In this galvanizing original poem by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, girls and girlhood are celebrated in their many forms, all beautiful, not for how they look but for how they look into the face of fear."--Provided by publisher.