Book
African American poetry
Publication Information
New York : Sterling Children's Books, c2012.
Physical Description
45 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Series
Summary
Presents a collection of poems by African-American poets, including Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Alexander.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- On Being Brought from Africa to America / George Moses Horton, Myself / Songs for the People / We Wear the Mask / Dawn
- To One Coming North / The Black Finger / Exultation / Song of the Son / Tableau / I, Too / The Creation / Haiku 37/ Haiku 64 / Frederick Douglass / The Moose Wallow
- Pete at the Zoo / The Bean Eaters
- I Want to Write / The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom / Winter Poem / A Round / Poem No. 1
- My Father's First Baseball Game / A Meditation for My Son
- The Poet / Imagination / Caged Bird / Alone / Plum blossom plum jam / Offspring / Obsidian / Apollo / My People