25—LITERATURE—Poetry
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25—LITERATURE—Poetry
1228
Adoff, Arnold, comp. I am the darker brother; an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans. Drawings by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins. New York, Macmillan [1968] 128 p. illus. PS591.N4A65
1229
Bontemps, Arna W., ed. American Negro poetry. New York, Hill and Wang [1963] 197 p. PS591.N4B58
1230
Bontemps, Arna W., comp. Golden slippers, an anthology of Negro poetry for young readers. With drawings by Henrietta Bruce Sharon. New York, Harper [c1941] 220 p. illus., plates. PS591.N4B6
"Biographies": p. 200-215.
1231
Braithwaite, William S. B. The house of falling leaves, with other poems. Boston, J. W. Luce, 1908. 112 p. PS3503.R246H7 1908
Partly reprinted from various periodicals.
1232
Braithwaite, William S. B. Lyrics of life and love. Boston, H. B. Turner, 1904. 80 p. port. PS3503.R246L8 1904
1233
Braithwaite, William S. B. Selected poems. New York, Coward-McCann [1948] 96 p. PS3503.R246A6 1948 [TR: Braithwaite, William Stanley]
1234
Brewer, John Mason, ed. Heralding dawn; an anthology of verse, selected and edited, with a historical summary on the Texas Negroes' verse-making, by J. Mason Brewer, and with a preface by Henry Smith. [Dallas, June Thomason, Print., c1936] 7 p. l., 45 p. ports. PS591.N4B65
Includes biographical sketches of the authors.
"Bibliography and acknowledgment": 3d prelim. leaf.
1235
Brooks, Gwendolyn. Annie Allen. [Poems]. New York, Harper [1949] 60 p. port. PS3503.R7244A7
1236
Brooks, Gwendolyn. In the Mecca; poems. New York, Harper & Row [1968] 54 p. PS3503.R7244I5
1237
Brown, Sterling A. Southern road, poems; drawings by E. Simms Campbell. New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1932] xv, 135 p. plates. PS3503.R833S6 1932
1238
Charters, Samuel B. The poetry of the blues. With photographs by Ann Charters. New York, Oak Publications [1963] 111 p. illus. PS591.N4C4
1239
Cullen, Countee. The black Christ & other poems. With decorations by Charles Cullen. New York, Harper, 1929. 110 p. illus., plates. PS3505.U287B6 1929
1240
Cullen, Countee, ed. Caroling dusk, an anthology of verse by Negro poets. Decorations by Aaron Douglas. New York, Harper, 1927. xxii, 237 p. PS591.N4C8
1241
Cullen, Countee. Color. New York, Harper, 1925. xvii, 108 p. PS3505.U287C6 1925
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Cullen, Countee. Copper sun. With decorations by Charles Cullen. New York, Harper, 1927. 89 p. illus. PS3505.U287C65 1927
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Cullen, Countee. On these I stand; an anthology of the best poems of Countee Cullen. Selected by himself and including six new poems never before published. New York, Harper [1947] 197 p. PS3505.U287A6 1947
1244
Cuney, Waring, Langston Hughes, and Bruce M. Wright, eds. Lincoln University poets; centennial anthology [1854-1954]. Foreword by Horace Mann Bond; introduction by J. Saunders Redding. New York, Fine Editions Press [1954] 72 p. PS591.N4C84
1245
Dodson, Owen. Powerful long ladder. New York, Farrar, Straus, 1946. 103 p. PS3507.O364P6
1246
Dunbar, Paul L. The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, with the introduction to "Lyrics of lowly life," by W. D. Howells. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1913. xxxii, 289 p. port. PS1556.A1 1913
1247
Dunbar, Paul L. Lyrics of lowly life. New York, Arno Press, 1969. xx, 208 p. (The American Negro, his history and literature) PS1556.L6 1969
Afro-American culture series.
Reprint of the 1899 ed.
1248
Dunbar, Paul L. Oak and ivy. Dayton, Ohio, Press of United Brethren Pub. House, 1893. 62 p. DHU
First ed. of Dunbar's first work; includes 13 poems not in The Complete Poems (1913).
1249
Hayden, Robert E. A ballad of remembrance. London, P. Breman, 1962. 72 p. (Heritage series, v. 1) PS3515.A9363B3
1250
Hayden, Robert E. Heart-shape in the dust; poems. Detroit, Falcon Press [c1940] 63 p. PS3515.A9363H4 1940
1251
Hayden, Robert E., comp. Kaleidoscope; poems by American Negro poets, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hayden. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1967] xxiv, 231 p. ports. (Curriculum-related books) PS591.N4H3
1252
Hayden, Robert E. Selected poems. New York, October House [1966] 79 p. PS3515.A9363A6 1966 [TR: Hayden, Robert Earl]
1253
Hughes, Langston. Fields of wonder. New York, Knopf, 1947. 114 p. PS3515.U274F45
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Hughes, Langston. Fine clothes to the Jew. New York, Knopf, 1927. 89 p. PS3515.U274F5 1927
1255
Hughes, Langston. New Negro poets U.S.A. Foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks. Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1964] 127 p. PS591.N4H8
1256
Hughes, Langston. One-way ticket [poems]; illustrations by Jacob Lawrence. New York, Knopf, 1949 [c1948] xvii, 136 p. illus. PS3515.U274O5
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Hughes, Langston. The panther & the lash; poems of our times. New York, Knopf, 1967. 101 p. PS3515.U274P3
1258
Hughes, Langston, and Arna W. Bontemps, eds. The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949; an anthology. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1949. xviii, 429 p. PN6109.7.H8
1259
Hughes, Langston. Selected poems. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. New York, Knopf, 1959. 297 p. illus. PS3515.U274A6 1959
1260
Hughes, Langston. Shakespeare in Harlem. With drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. New York, Knopf, 1942. 124 p. illus. PS3515.U274S5
"A book of light verse."—4th prelim. leaf.
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Hughes, Langston. The weary blues. With an introduction by Carl Van Vechten. New York, Knopf, 1926. 109 p. PS3515.U274W4 1926
1262
Johnson, Georgia D. An autumn love cycle. New York, H. Vinal, 1928. xix, 70 p. front. PS3519.O253A8 1928
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Johnson, Georgia D. The heart of a woman, and other poems. With an introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite. Boston, Cornhill Co., 1918. 62 p. [PS3601.J6H4 1918] [TR: PS3519.O253H4 1918]
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Johnson, James W., ed. The book of American Negro poetry, chosen and edited, with an essay on the Negro's creative genius. New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1931] 300 p. music. PS591.N4J6 1931
"Revised edition."
"Books suggested for collateral reading": p. 295-296.
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Johnson, James W. Fifty years & other poems. With an introduction by Brander Matthews. Boston, Cornhill Co. [c1917] xiv, 92 p. PS3519.O2625F5
Reprinted in part from various periodicals.
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Johnson, James W. God's trombones; seven Negro sermons in verse. Drawings by Aaron Douglas, lettering by C. B. Falls. New York, Viking Press, 1927. 56 p. plates. PS3519.O2625G6 1927
1267
Jones, LeRoi. The dead lecturer; poems. New York, Grove Press [1964] 79 p. [PS3519.O4545D4] [TR: PS3552.A583D4 Baraka, Imamu Amiri]
1268
Kerlin, Robert T. Negro poets and their poems. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1935] xxi, 342 p. illus., ports. PS591.N4K4 1935
"Index of authors, with biographical and bibliographical notes": p. 323-335.
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[Lanusse, Armand], comp. Creole voices; poems in French by free men of color, first published in 1845, edited by Edward Maceo Coleman. With a foreword by H. Carrington Lancaster. A Centennial ed. Washington, Associated Publishers, 1945. xlvi, 130 p. PQ3937.L8L32
This anthology, compiled by Armand Lanusse, who was also one of the principal contributors, was originally published in New Orleans under title: Les cenelles, choix de poésies indigènes.
Present edition includes poems of V. E. Rillieux and P. A. Desdunes, two later poets (p. [109]-128).
1270
Major, Clarence, comp. The new black poetry. New York, International Publishers [1969] 156 p. PS591.N4M3
1271
Murphy, Beatrice M., ed. Ebony rhythm; an anthology of contemporary Negro verse. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, c1948] 162 p. (Granger index reprint series) PS591.N4M76 1968
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Murphy, Beatrice M., ed. Negro voices; illustrations by Clifton Thompson Hill. New York, H. Harrison [c1938] 173 p. illus. PS591.N4M8
At head of title: An anthology of contemporary verse.
1273
Pipes, James. Ziba. With decorations by Edith Mahier. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. 188 p. illus. PS3531.I79Z3
1274
Pool, Rosey E., ed. Beyond the blues, new poems by American Negroes. Lympne, Kent, Hand and Flower Press [1962] 188 p. PS591.N4P6
Bibliography: p. 186-188.
1275
Rollins, Charlemae H., comp. Christmas gif'; an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about Negroes. Line drawings by Tom O'Sullivan. Book design by Stan Williamson. Chicago, Follett Pub. Co. [1963] 119 p. illus. PS509.C56R6
1276
Tolson, Melvin B. Harlem gallery. With an introduction by Karl Shapiro. Book 1. The curator. New York, Twayne [1965] 173 p. PS3539.O334H3
1277
Tolson, Melvin B. Libretto for the Republic of Liberia. New York, Twayne Publishers [1953] 1 v. (unpaged) PS3539.O334L5 [TR: (Rare Bk Coll)]
1278
Tolson, Melvin B. Rendezvous with America. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1944. 121 p. PS3539.O334R4
1279
Turner, Lucy M. 'Bout cullud folkses; poems. New York, H. Harrison [1938] 64 p. [PS3601.T8B6 1938] [TR: PS3539.U8536B6 1938]
1280
Walker, Margaret. For my people. With a foreword by Stephen Vincent Benét. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1942. 58 p. (The Yale series of younger poets, [41]) PS3545.A517F6
1281
Wegelin, Oscar. Jupiter Hammon, American Negro poet; selections from his writings and a bibliography; with five facsimiles. New York, Ninety-nine copies printed for C. F. Heartman, 1915. 51 p. facsims., front. (Heartman's historical series, no. 13) PS767.H15Z8
"No. 90 of 91 copies printed on Alexandra Japan paper."
1282
Wheatley, Phillis. Poems. Edited, with an introduction, by Julian D. Mason, Jr. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1966. lviii, 113 p. facsims., port. PS866.W5 1966
1283
Wheatley, Phillis. Poems and letters; first collected edition, ed. by Chas. Fred. Heartman; with an appreciation by Arthur A. Schomburg. New York, C. F. Heartman [1915] 111 p. port. (Heartman's historical series, no. 8) PS866.W5 1915
No. 20 of 350 copies printed on Ben Day paper.
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Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. London, Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773. 124 p. port. PS866.W5 1773
1284a
White, Newman Ivey, and Walter C. Jackson, eds. An anthology of verse by American Negroes, edited with a critical introduction, biographical sketches of the authors, and bibliographical notes. With an introduction by James Hardy Dillard. Durham, N.C., Trinity College Press, 1924. 250 p. (Trinity College publications) PS591.N4W5
"Bibliographical and critical notes": p. 214-237.
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Wilson, Joseph T. Voice of a new race. Original selections of poems, with a trilogy and oration. Hampton, Va., Normal School Steam Press, 1882. 43 p. PS3334.W58