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  • OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
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African American poetry

Call Number

  • J 811.008 AFRI (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Sterling Children's Books, c2012.

Physical Description

45 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.

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

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