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Twentieth Century African American Poetry

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A collection of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureStavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
Language and Literature, English and American Literature, Poetry, Area and Cultural Studies, African American Studies
<p>Many contemporary African-American writers of the 1980s and 1990s, who have gained recognition through national poetry awards or inclusion within leading print anthologies, are also represented.</p>
English