Collected Poems - Softcover

Hayden, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871401592 ISBN 13: 9780871401595

Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1997

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Enhanced by a biographical portrait and a critical analysis of Hayden's poetry, an anthology featuring the work of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century contemplates the black experience and deals with such themes as dreams, mortality, nature, travel, and memory. Reprint.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Hayden received numerous awards including a Hopwood Award, 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.

Frederick Glaysher studied writing under a private tutorial with Robert Hayden at the University of Michigan, from which he holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, the latter in English. The author and editor of several works, he edited Hayden’s Collected Prose as well as the Collected Poems. Robert Hayden is a character in Glaysher’s recently published epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, partly set on the moon, at the landing site of Apollo 11.

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.”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0871401592
• ISBN 13: 9780871401595
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 205
• Herausgeber: Glaysher Frederick
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