| Description |
1 online resource (61 pages) |
| Series |
Yale Series of Younger Poets Ser |
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Yale Series of Younger Poets Ser
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- FOREWORD / Vincent Benet, Stephen -- CONTENTS -- I -- For My People -- Dark Blood -- We Have Been Believers -- Southern Song -- Sorrow Home -- Delta -- Lineage -- Since 1619 -- People of Unrest -- Today -- II -- Molly Means -- Bad-Man Stagolee -- Poppa Chicken -- Kissie Lee -- Yalluh Hammuh -- Two-Gun Buster and trigger Slim -- Teacher -- GUS, the Lineman -- Long John Nelson and Sweetie Pie -- Big John Henry -- III -- Childhood -- Whores -- Iowa Farmer -- Memory -- Our Need -- The Struggle Staggers Us -- PUBLISHER'S NOTE -- VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED |
| Summary |
An exploration of race and heritage, For My People is the first book by poet and novelist Margaret Walker (1915-1998) and the 41st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Poetry
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POETRY -- American -- African American.
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African Americans
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Benet, Stephen Vincent
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| ISBN |
9780300251142 |
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0300251149 |
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9780300246407 |
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0300246404 |
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