"This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, a ..."
"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."
"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."
"This title offers perspectives on civil rights not found in history books. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a compl ..."
"A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present. Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes - the city becomes a savior, a beast ..."
"A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present. Do poets' surroundings shape their viewpoint and work? Abandon Automobile seeks to address this question by bringing together the work of more than one hundred of Detroit's most acclaimed and accessible poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, these poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes - the city becomes a savior, a beast ..."
Collected Poems by RobertHayden 256 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-275-2, ISBN: 0-87140-275-0
"Langston Hughes, visiting the area for the production of one of his plays, further
inspired Hayden. As with so ... Probably neither Hughes nor Cullen was
ultimately as large an influence on Hayden's mature art as was W. H. Auden.
Hayden met ..."
"An exquisite body of work celebrating the centennial of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent, and American Journal, which was nomin ..."
Mulholland Drive by RobertHayden Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Rodeo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9530140-2-6, ISBN: 0-9530140-2-9
"Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, .Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens. is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade to the current impasse in which Indians are resisting displacement and marginalization.This new edition is the result of substantial revision ..."
"In an effort to distinguish genocide from most military killings, Fein specifies that
genocide does not include actions against groups that pose an active threat.
Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn provide an overlapping but rather different
definition: 'Genocide is a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other
authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are
defined by the perpetrator.'35 This ..."
Black Sunrise by RobertHayden Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 1997 by Summersdale Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-9530140-0-2, ISBN: 0-9530140-0-2
Black Sunrise by RobertHayden Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 1997 by Summersdale Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-9530140-1-9, ISBN: 0-9530140-1-0
"arrangements and techniques in poetry James E. Miller, Robert Hayden, Robert
O'Neal ... This old house which was hers made her crooked back a shingle, her
covered eye this fireplace oven, her arms the young pine beams now our
clapboard; siding; the covered well runs in this dirt basement, her spring watering
her grave where the fruit, vegetables, woodpile, lie. commentary "The Families
Album" is part seven of a nine part poem "Phot ..."
Marquee Ten Plays By American and British Playwrights. by James E. Miller, RobertHayden, Robert O'neal Paperback, 431 Pages, Published 1973 by Addison-Wesley ISBN-13: 978-0-673-03416-8, ISBN: 0-673-03416-X