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English
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In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the author's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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"One of the most celebrated and revered writers in the history of American literature gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass, that are Toni Morrison's hallmarks. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxx, 365 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on, among other subjects, the possibility...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
lx, 1110 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discover, in these pages, how an enslaved person like Phillis Wheatley confronted her legal status in verse and how an antebellum activist like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voiced her own passionate resistance to slavery. Read nuanced, provocative poetic meditations on identity and self-assertion stretching from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Amiri Baraka to Lucille Clifton and beyond. Experience the transformation of poetic modernism in the works of figures...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of living in a country wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly...
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
72 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet, you know you've found poetry with a beat! Like Poetry Speaks to Children, the New York Times Bestselling classic poetry book and CD that started...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies...
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Series
Publisher
Lumen Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
El ultimo libro de la gran premio Nobel de Literatura: su insoslayable legado moral e intelectual. La fuente de la autoestima es la magnifica recopilacion de ensayos y discursos de Toni Morrison en los que ofrece sus lucidas reflexiones sobre la sociedad, la cultura y el arte de los ultimos cuarenta anos, y realiza una contundente critica de sus obras y tambien de algunas ajenas. Morrison aborda temas sociales acuciantes como la inmigracion, el empoderamiento...
11) Blind spot
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 332 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Here, journey through more than 150 of Cole’s full-color original photos, each accompanied by his lyrical and evocative prose, forming a multimedia diary of years of near-constant travel: from a park in Berlin to a mountain range in Switzerland, a church exterior in Lagos to a parking lot in Brooklyn; landscapes and interiors, beautiful or quotidian, that inspire Cole’s memories, fantasies, and introspections. Ships in Capri remind him of the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves.
Publisher
37 INK/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word. Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This unique collection seeks to shed light on that injustice and subjugation, as well as the hard-won...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends--until they weren't. Zora Neale Hurston ... and Langston Hughes ... were collaborators, literary gadflies, and close companions. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote scores of loving letters to each other. They even had the same patron: Charlotte Osgood...
Publisher
Naxos
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (2 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection features original historical recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humor of Charley Case, readings from God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson, and more.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial ModernClassics
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xii, 308, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston's imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. This is a book full of the wit and wisdom of a proud and spirited woman who started low and climbed high.
18) Three poets of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, & Countee Cullen
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (3 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth.
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin’s 1962 “Letter to My...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 386 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories...
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