Collected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780871406798)

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 nominated for a National Book Award. Also included is an introduction by American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, as well as an afterword by Arnold Rampersad that provides a critical and historical context. In Hayden's work the actualities of history and culture became the launching places for flights of imagination and intelligence. His voice--characterized by musical diction and an exquisite feeling for the formality of pattern--is a seminal one in American life and literature.

Author: Robert Hayden
ISBN-10: 0871406799
ISBN-13: 9780871406798
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2013 pg. 11
Shelf Awareness 04/05/2013
Books & Culture 11/01/2014 pg. 35