Angles of ascent : a Norton anthology of contemporary African American poetry

Summary: "This landmark anthology brings together for the first time more than three hundred poems by over seventy African American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Ai, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Tretheway, Major Jackson, and Kevin Young. Angles of Ascent looks to the immediate past of contemporary African American poetry, including the influence of Modernism in the 1950's and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960's, before turning toward the current thriving literary scene and beyond. General readers and specialists alike will treasure this collection for its diverse readings of humanity by modern and contemporary African American poets as well as its comprehensive introductions and commentary."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780393339406 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0393339408 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
liii, 617 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1: Precursors -- Modernists, 1940s to 1960s -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith -- Riot -- Boy breaking glass -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- For a young artist -- Elegies for Paradise Valley -- A letter from Phillis Wheatley -- Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) -- from Harlem Gallery -- Chi -- The 1960s and beyond -- The Black arts movement -- Amiri Baraka (1934-) -- Black art -- In memory of radio -- An agony. as now. -- A poem for Black hearts -- AM/TRAK -- Mari Evans (1923-) -- I am a Black woman -- Nikki Giovanni (1943-) -- Nikki-Rosa -- Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) -- Bobb Hamilton (1928-1998) -- Poem to a nigger cop -- David Henderson (1942-) -- Downtown-boy uptown -- Calvin C. Hernton (1932-2001) -- The distant drum -- Haki Madhubuti (1942-) -- But he was cool, or : he even stopped for green lights -- Larry Neal (1937-1981) -- Malcolm X - an autobiography -- Carolyn Rodgers (1940-2010) -- how i got ovah -- Breakthrough -- Sonia Sanchez (1934-) -- Homecoming -- Malcolm -- blk/rhetoric -- A poem for my father -- Poem no. 3 -- Towhomitmayconcern -- A.B. Spellman (1935-) -- I looked & saw history caught -- Edward S. Spriggs (1934-) -- For Brother Malcolm --