african american authors

Poems expressing a black child's view of holidays, family life, and the neighborhood.

Collected poems that serve as a companion to Giovanni's 1997 Love Poems. That book--romantic, bold, and erotic--expressed notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private. A mother's passing, a sister's, too. A massacre on the campus at which she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love--what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love--and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart--is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.--From publisher description.

Presents a collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner, Gwendolyn Brooks.

Presents four of twentieth-century African-American writer Maya Angelou's poetry collections: "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diie," "Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well," "And Still I Rise," and "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?".

Contains essays written in the years between 1929 and the 1940s by writers employed by the Work Projects Administration who were assigned to gather information about the lives of ordinary men and women living in New York's Harlem.

A collection of poems by one of America's major black poets, including her four previously published books and her prose memoir, Generations.

Presents selected works of fiction by African-American women.

Provides biographical and critical information on seventeen African-American women poets and dramatists who have made significant contributions to literature during the twentieth century.

Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the thirteen most significant African-American prose writers up to the early twentieth century.