Bibliograph

I am the darker brother, an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans, edited by Arnold Adoff, drawings by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins

Type

Label

I am the darker brother, an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans, edited by Arnold Adoff, drawings by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I am the darker brother

Oclc number

270243

Responsibility statement

edited by Arnold Adoff, drawings by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins

Sub title

an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans

Summary

Poems on aspects of race or racial problems by well-known Negro poets, including Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson

Table Of Contents

Me and the Mule / Langston Hughes -- The Rebel / Mari Evans -- We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Cross / Langston Hughes -- Aunt Jane Allen / Fenton Johnson -- The Whipping / Robert Hayden -- Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- A Song in the Front Yard / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Flowers of Darkness / Frank Marshall Davis -- Juke Box Love Song / Langston Hughes -- The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face / James Weldon Johnson -- Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Madhouse / Calvin C. Hernton -- Each Morning / Leroi Jones -- A Moment Please / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey) -- The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes -- Southern Mansion / Arna Bontemps -- O Daedalus, Fly Away Home / Robert Hayden -- October Journey / Margaret Walker -- Dust Bowl / Robert A. Davis -- A Ballad of Remembrance / Robert Hayden -- Middle Passage / Robert Hayden -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- Runagate Runagate / Robert Hayden -- Memorial Wreath / Dudley Randall -- Vaticide / Myron O'Higgins -- A Poem for Black Hearts / Leroi Jones -- To Richard Wright / Conrad Kent Rivers -- American Gothic / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey) -- When Mahalia Sings / Quandra Prettyman -- Yardbird's Skull / Owen Dodson -- If We Must Die / Claude McKay -- The Lynching / Claude McKay -- "So Quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- The Daybreakers / Arna Bontemps -- Song for a Dark Girl / Langston Hughes -- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown -- Between the World and Me / Richard Wright -- I, Too, Sing America / Langston Hughes -- A Black Man Talks of Reaping / Arna Bontemps -- From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen -- On Passing Two Negroes on a Dark Country Road Somewhere in Georgia / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Beehive / Jean Toomer -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One / Owen Dodson -- If the Stars Should Fall / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey) -- For a Lady I Know / Countee Cullen -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Hokku: In the Falling Snow / Richard Wright -- Yet Do I Marvel / Countee Cullen -- The Train Runs Late to Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Award / Ray Durem -- Status Symbol / Mari Evans -- Black Is a Soul / Joseph White -- The Still Voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Dream Variation / Langston Hughes -- Poems for My Brother Kenneth, VII / Owen Dodson -- In Time of Crisis / Raymond Richard Patterson -- The Noonday April Sun / George Love -- After the Winter / Claude McKay -- Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France / Conrad Kent Rivers -- For My People / Margaret Walker

Target audience

juvenile

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