Collected Poems - Softcover

Hayden, Robert

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ISBN 10: 087140138X ISBN 13: 9780871401380

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1985

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Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including American Journal, which was nominated for a National Book Award in its first publication. An introduction by Arnold Rampersad provides a biographical portrait of Hayden and a critical context in which to understand his poetry.

Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, and the Russell Loines Award for distinguished poetic achievement from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Arnold Rampersad is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University.

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About the Author:

Arnold Rampersad (Ph.D. Harvard) is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is co-editor (with Deborah E. McDowell) of Slavery and the Literary Imagination, and editor of the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. He is the author of the two-volume biography The Life of Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson: A Biography, and co-author (with Arthur Ashe) of Days of Grace: A Memoir. He is also editor of “The Harlem Renaissance.”

Review:

Akhenaten
American Journal
Approximations
As My Blood Was Drawn
Astronauts
Aunt Jemima Of The Ocean Waves
Baha' U'llah In The Garden Of Ridwan
The Ballad Of Nat Turner
A Ballad Of Remembrance
The Ballad Of Sue Ellen Westerfield
Beginnings
Belsen, Day Of Liberation
Bone-flower Elegy
The Broken Dark
Burly Fading One
Butterfly Piece
Crispus Attucks
Dance The Orange
Dawnbreaker
Day Of The Dead
The Diver
The Dogwood Trees
Double Feature
The Dream
El-hajj Malik El-shabazz
Electrical Storm
Elegies For Paradise Valley
For A Young Artist
Frederick Douglass
Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers
From The Corpse Woodpiles, From The Ashes
Full Moon
Gulls
Homage To Paul Robeson
Homage To The Empress Of The Blues
Ice Storm
Idol
Incense Of The Lucky Virgin
The Islands
John Brown
Kid
Killing The Calves
Kodachromes Of The Island
La Corrida
Lear Is Gay
Letter
A Letter From Phillis Wheatley
The Lions
Locus
Market
Middle Passage
The Mirages
Monet's Waterlilies
The Moose Wallow
Mountains
Mourning Poem For The Queen Of Sunday
'mystery Boy' Looks For Kin In Nashville
Names
Nefert-iti
Night, Death, Mississippi
The Night-blooming Cereus
O Daedalus, Fly Away Home
October
On Lookout Mountain
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Peacock Room
The Performers
Perseus
A Plague Of Starlings (fisk Campus)
The Point (stonington, Connecticut)
The Prisoners
The Rabbi
The Rag Man
The Return
Richard Hunt's 'arachne'
A Road In Kentucky
Runagate Runagate
Smelt Fishing
Snow
The Snow Lamp, Sels.
Soledad
Sphinx
Stars
Sub Specie Aeternitatis
'summertime And The Living'
The Tattooed Man
Theme And Variation
Theory Of Evil
Those Winter Sundays
Tour 5
Traveling Through Fog
Unidentified Flying Object
Veracruz
The Web
The Wheel
The Whipping
Witch Doctor
Words In The Mourning Time
The Year Of The Child
Zeus Over Redeye
Zinnias
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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