African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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335 p., An anthology of Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. It features selections of work by 14 poets, with interviews, photographs and essays. Authors: Louise Bennett (b. 1919) -- Martin Carter (b. 1927) -- Derek Walcott (b. 1930) -- Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) -- Dennis Scott (b. 1939) -- Mervyn Morris (b. 1937) -- James Berry (b. 1924) -- E.A. Markham (b. 1939) -- Olive Senior (b. 1943) -- Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) -- Linton Kwesi Johnson (b. 1952) -- Michael Smith (1954-83) -- Grach Nichols (b. 1950) -- Fred D'Aguiar.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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704 p., The Poetry of Slavery is the first book to collect the most important works of poetry generated by English and North American slavery. Mixing poetry by the major Anglo-American Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Whitman, Melville,Dickinson) with curious, and sometimes brilliant verse by a range of now forgotten literary figures, the anthology is designed to aid students and teachers address the Anglo-American cultural inheritance of slavery.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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447 p., Over the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and many other exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the vitality of the spoken word on the page. Both of these traditions are represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.