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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

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In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States—200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets.

From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar…the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks…the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden…the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown…