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Starting with Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this inspiring anthology edited by Catherine Clinton captures the enormous talent and passion of black poets. Powerful and diverse, "I, Too, Sing America" is a forum for voices baring their souls, speaking their minds, tracing their roots and proclaiming their dreams.

Each of th... More

Starting with Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this inspiring anthology edited by Catherine Clinton captures the enormous talent and passion of black poets. Powerful and diverse, "I, Too, Sing America" is a forum for voices baring their souls, speaking their minds, tracing their roots and proclaiming their dreams.

Each of the twenty-five poets is introduced with a brief biography and poetry notes to help the listener place their work in context. Included in the anthology is:

I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

Bars Fight by Lucy Terry

Liberty and Peace by Phillis Wheatley

On Liberty and Slavery by George Moses Horton

Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String by James M. Whitfield

Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Song of the Smoke by W.E.B. Du Bois

Lift Ev ry Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson

We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke

Your World and Interracial by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Children of the Sun by Fenton Johnson

If We Must Die and The White House by Claude McKay

Beehive by Jean Toomer

Heritage and To a Dark Girl by Gwendolyn Bennett

A Black Man Talks 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 Rise by Maya Angelou

Rites of Passage by Audre Lorde

In the Year by Amiri Baraka

The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni

Women by Alice Walker

Primer by Rita Dove"

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