Title Afro-American poets since 1955 / edited by Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis

Published Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., ©1985

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 401 pages) : illustrations Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 41 Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 41 Contents Samuel W. Allen -- Johari M. Amini (Jewel Christine McLawler Latimore ; Johari M. Kunjufu) -- Russell Atkins -- Alvin Aubert -- Gerald William Barrax -- Joanne M. Braxton -- Margaret T.G. Burroughs -- Lucille Clifton -- Charles E. Cobb, Jr. -- Sam Cornish -- Jayne Cortez -- Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Margaret Esse Danner -- Henry Dumas -- Ebon (Leo Thomas Hale ; Ebon Doley) -- James Andrew Emanuel -- Mari Evans -- Julia Fields -- Calvin Forbes -- Nikki Giovanni -- Michael S. Harper -- David Henderson -- Everett H. Hoagland III -- Angela Jackson -- Lance Jeffers -- Ted Joans -- Bob Kaufman -- Etheridge Knight -- Pinkie Gordon Lane -- Audre Lorde -- Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- E. Ethelbert Miller -- May Miller -- Pauli Murray -- Eugene Perkins -- Sterling D. Plumpp -- Dudley Randall -- Eugene B. Redmond -- Conrad Kent Rivers -- Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- Gil Scott-Heron -- A.B. Spellman -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Askia Muhammad Toure (Rolland Snellings) -- Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. -- Tom Weatherly -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Jay Wright -- Ahmos Zu-Bolton II Summary Essays on African-American poets whose works helped to shape a contemporary literature, but also helped to reclaim, recapture, and reshape a culture, through their inventiveness and wisdom and have invigorated Afro-American and American literature in language, style, form, and substance Notes "A Bruccoli Clark book." Includes index Print version record Subject African American poets -- Biography -- Dictionaries African Americans in literature -- Dictionaries African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Dictionaries American poetry -- African American authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries American poetry -- African American authors -- Dictionaries American poetry -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries. American poetry -- 20th century -- Dictionaries Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries. Genre/Form Bio-bibliography. Biographies. Dictionaries. Form Electronic book Author Davis, Thadious M., 1944- Harris, Trudier. LC no. 85016093

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