poets, american

"A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the life of 20th-century African-American poet, Langston Hughes.

A gifted poet, Countee Cullen wrote some of the outstanding works of the 1920s.

Presents a collection of correspondence written from 1956 through 1963 by twentieth-century American poet Sylvia Plath.

Contains two editions of Walt Whitman's collection of poems, including the 1855 first edition which contains twelve unnamed poems, and the 1891-92 "deathbed edition" which Whitman finished months before his death and includes almost four hundred poems.

Culled from more than 5,000 pages of e-mail, Swoon is a true story of two writers who meet and fall in love over the internet. It is autobiography, poetry, literary essay and erotica all rolled into one. Revealing the tenacity of love, this correspondence takes place between Nada Gordon, an expatriate in Tokyo, and Gary Sullivan in New York, who finally meet in the "real" world with mixed reactions followed by a Hollywood ending. It is Heloise and Abelard without the tragedy, the troubadors without inequality, and the Brownings without euphemisim--all facilitated by the immediate intimacy of cybercommunication.

Looks at the life of Phillis Wheatley, a girl brought from Senengal to Boston as a slave in 1761 who played a role in the events of the American Revolution, and grew up to become a renowned poet.

Assesses the life and writings of twentieth-century American novelist and poet Conrad Aiken.

A biography of American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.