My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry (A Puffin Poetry Book) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140374434 ISBN 13: 9780140374438

Publisher: Puffin Books, 1995

Synopsis

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be African-American? What is the black experience?

The spirited voices of twenty-six African-American poets speak to these and other questions in fifty collected poems that explore the African-American world. The rich words of this treasury rang out for the first time over twenty years ago, and will continue to shout their message for years to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Born and raised in New York City, Arnold Adoff was a teacher and counselor in the New York public schools for twelve years. He studied American history and literature at the City College of New York and at Columbia University, and he studied writing at the New School in New York City. His more than thirty books for young people and their "older allies" since 1968 include such noted anthologies as I Am the Darker Brother and The Poetry of Black America. Volumes of his own poetry and "poet's prose" include Black Is Brown Is Tan, All the Colors of the Race, and In for Winter, Out for Spring. He received the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children for the body of his work. Mr. Adoff and his wife, esteemed author Virginia Hamilton, now divide their times between Yellow Springs, Ohio, and New York City. They have two grown children, Leigh Hamilton and Jaime Levi. Mr. Adoff still enjoys traveling around the country to teach, read his poems, and work with young readers and writers in their schools.

Review:

Sos by Amiri Baraka
For Delawd by Lucille Clifton
Good Times by Lucille Clifton
Listen Children by Lucille Clifton
To Bobby Seale by Lucille Clifton
Ali by Lloyd M., Jr. Corbin
#1. by Sam Cornish
Cross The River by Sam Cornish
Montgomery by Sam Cornish
My Brother Is Homemade by Sam Cornish
Sam's World by Sam Cornish
Your Mother by Sam Cornish
One Thousand Nine-hundred & Sixty-eight Winters by Jackie Earley
Old Black Men Say by James Andrew Emanuel
Aardvark by Julia Fields
Do Not Think by Carol Freeman
Knoxville, Tennessee by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Poem For Flora by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Ten Years Old by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
Winter Poem by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
It's A New Kind Of Day by Kali Grosvenor
Our Black People by Kali Grosvenor
Were Is My Head Going by Kali Grosvenor
A Grandfather Poem by William J., Jr. Harris
Monument In Black by Vanessa Howard
Dream Deferred by James Langston Hughes
Dream Variations [or, Variation] by James Langston Hughes
Final Curve by James Langston Hughes
Good Morning by James Langston Hughes
My People by James Langston Hughes
Sun Song by James Langston Hughes
I Remember by Mae Jackson
Black People by Theodore Joans
August 8 by Norman Jordan
Number 4 by Doughtry, Jr. Long
Awareness by Haki R. Madhubuti
Soft: The Way Her Eyes View Her Children by Haki R. Madhubuti
We're An Africanpeople by Haki R. Madhubuti
What Color Is Black? by Barbara Mahone
I Was Jus by Bob O'meally
It Aint No by Bob O'meally
Glory, Glory ... by Raymond Richard Patterson
I've Got A Home In That Rock by Raymond Richard Patterson
Riot Times U.s.a. #78 by Raymond Richard Patterson
Riot Times U.s.a. #79 by Raymond Richard Patterson
The Real People Loves One Another by Rob Penny
Portrait by Carolyn M. Rodgers
To P.j. (2 Yrs Old Who Sed Write A Poem For Me In Portland, Oregon) by Sonia Sanchez
To Malcolm X by Julius E. Thompson
Black Is Best by Larry Thompson
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140374434
• ISBN 13: 9780140374438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Adoff Arnold