A collection of poems for and about children depicting life in big cities

Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Children's Books

Gwendolyn Brooks

Biographies

Harpercollins

Selected Poems

This new volume by a distinguished modern poet, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, brings together the best of her work from three earlier books now out of print (A Street in Bronzevile, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters) and includes a section of new poems which have not appeared before in book form. Selected Poems reaffirms impressively Miss Brook's rich and varied giftsher technical mastery, her compassionate, illuminating response to a world that is both special and universal, her warm humanity. 
 In "A Critical Reassessment," which appeared in The Nation in 1962, Harvey Curtis Webster, of the University of Louisville, wrote in part: 
"Gwendolyn Brooks has never denied her engagement in the contemporary situation or been over-obsessed by it. In her engagement she resembles Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Margaret Walker. IN her ability to see through the temporal she equals Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, writers of fiction who accept Negro-ness as prizeable differentiation and a dilemma, include it to transcend it...Like all good writers she acknowledges Now by verifying it accepts herself and the distinguishing background that is part of her distinction. But she refuses to let Negro-ness limit her humanity...
"She is a very good poet, the only superlative I dare use in our time of misusage; compares not to other Negro poets or other women poets but to the best modern poets, she ranks huigh."

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Harper&Row

Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology

ALICE WALKER

Zora Neale Hurston

Richard Wright

Ralph Ellison

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

Various Others

frank-yerby

James, Baldwin

United States

Back Bay Books

'Hear My Voice' is an exciting compilation of stories, poems, essays, and speeches from a wide range of writers. The voices in this anthology reflect the diversity of American culture and provide the reader with a unique glimpse into everyday lives and extraordinary events. Joyous, angry, sad, celebratory, frustrated, and hopeful voices tell of the passion and vitality of life in the United States. The works in the anthology are divided into six units: Borders; Love; Family and Generations; Society; Conflict, Struggle and Change; Personal Identity; and Celebrations. Characters of diverse age, gender, race, heritage lead the readers through these themes as they explore issues, make difficult decisions, and struggle with complex emotions. Questions after each selection provide a bridge between the literature and the reader's own life.

Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology of Literature From the United States

Langston Hughes

Nikki Giovanni

Martin Luther King

M. Scott Momaday

Chitra Divakaruni

Gish Jen

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Best Poems: Advanced Level

Carl Sandburg

Naomi Shihab Nye

emily-bronte

Ishmael Reed

Marge Piercy

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Donald Justice

Emily, Dickinson

William, Blake

Denise Levertov

Robert, Browning

Robert., Herrick

William. Shakespeare

Edgar-Allan-Poe

maya-angelou

N, Scott

Robert, Frost

Anne Sexton Percy

Jamestown Pubns

Aloneness

THIRD WORLD PRESS +

A little boy reflects on the difference between being lonely and being alone

Broadside Press

Blacks

The David Company

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FisicalBook

Maud Martha

La Tartaruga

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