Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195052534)

These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) protests at the treatment of her race during this period of social upheaval and injustice. The other poets treat the traditional themes - love, nature, death, Christian idealism and morality, family - in conventional forms and language. As interesting for the themes that they address as for those that they ignore, these selections offer a sample of poetic voices that until now have gone largely unheard.

Author: Joan R. Sherman
ISBN-10: 0195052536
ISBN-13: 9780195052534
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/14/1988
Pages: 466
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.40d