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Collected Poems by Robert Hayden
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.16Robert 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,... -
American Journal: Poems by Robert Hayden 9780871401274
RRP: $16.13Booksplease Price: $15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRobert Hayden received numerous awards including a Hopwood Award, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First... -
Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry by Laurence Goldstein 9780472035892
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.66This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden's growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century's most important poems on African-American themes,... -
Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems by Robert Hayden 9780871401069
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $18.16In his new poems, as before, but with a new mixture of modes, Hayden takes up, celebrates, and contends with the history of his people. He is involved with his Black Americanness, without being... -
A Study Guide for Robert Hayden's the Whipping by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375394352
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375394352Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38I -
A Study Guide for Robert Hayden's Runagate Runagate by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387316
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375387316Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36I -
Michigan Literary Luminaries: From Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden by Anna Clark 9781626199378
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626199378Author Anna ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint -
Michigan Literary Luminaries: From Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden by Anna Clark 9781540213563
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540213563Author Anna ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint -
Robert Hayden in Verse: New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era by Derik Smith 9780472053933
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.66This book sheds new light on the work of Robert Hayden (1913-80) in response to changing literary scholarship. While Hayden's poetry often reflected aspects of the African American experience, he... -
Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It): poetry & parenting Nathaniel Perry 9780472039715
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $26.61Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that considers poetry in the context of parenting-what poems and poets might teach... -
The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry by Annette Debo 9780810146877
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $31.94Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future "Poets are lyric historians," proclaimed Langston Hughes. Today, historical poetry offers a lyric history... -
Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field by Angela Hume 9781609385590
RRP: $94.17Booksplease Price: $79.48Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume's essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first... -
Plough Quarterly No. 23 - In Search of a City by Jenny McCartney
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95The future of humanity is urban. It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist... -
Afro-American Literature in Thetwentieth-Century by Michael G. Cooke 9780300036244
Booksplease Price: $36.87Michael Cooke examines the essential structure of Afro-American literature as it has developed in the twentieth-century, with special attention to works by Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Richard... -
Praise Song For The Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander 9781555975456
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.82Drawing inspiration from poets like Walt Whitman, Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Alexander wrote this poem which she read at the inauguration of Barack Obama. She is the fourth poet in... -
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry by Julian Peters
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.86A fresh twist on 24 classic poems, these visual interpretations by comic artist Julian Peters will change the way you see the world.This stunning anthology of favorite poems visually interpreted by... -
Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left by Alan M. Wald 9780807853498
Booksplease Price: $56.14Wald offers a comprehensive history and reconsideration of the U.S. literary left in the mid-twentieth century. Recovering the central role Marxist-influenced writers played in fiction, poetry,... -
Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $27.84While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including... -
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy 9780472117338
Booksplease Price: $60.95The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki... -
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy 9780472035687
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki... -
Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora by Raquel Kennon 9780807176818
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the "Black world" paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas... -
Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry by Martin Lammon 9780472066346
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14For twenty years, the Poets on Poetry series, under the editorship of Donald Hall, has provided readers with a variety of prose reflections, interviews, essays, and other works by America's leading... -
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by 9780820332772
RRP: $171.51Booksplease Price: $102.63This 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... -
Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism by Joshua Logan Wall
RRP: $94.17Booksplease Price: $68.36A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of... -
Songlines in Michaeltree: NEW and COLLECTED POEMS by Michael S. Harper 9780252071058
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.67Songlines in Michaeltree is the long-awaited collected poems--with the sparkling addition of some new ones--of one of America's most revered poets. Hailed by critics as a distinctive and powerful... -
Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media by Dina Iordanova 9780851708478
Booksplease Price: $54.46First study of cinema, media and the Balkan wars; Wide-ranging view of politics and culture of the region; The break-up of Yugoslavia triggered a truly international film-making project. Underground,... -
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries by Yusef Komunyakaa
Booksplease Price: $96.32Condition Red collects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume... -
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries by Yusef Komunyakaa 9780472053445
Booksplease Price: $38.52Condition Red collects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume... -
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 by Melba Joyce Boyd 9780814328101
Booksplease Price: $30.08A 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... -
Harlem Gallery and Other Poems of Melvin B.Tolson by Melvin B. Tolson 9780813918655
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.69The poet Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was once recognized as one of black America's most important modernist voices. Playful, fluent, and intellectually sophisticated, his poems stirred up... -
Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism by Joshua Logan Wall 9781421443799
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $26.92A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of... -
The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s by James Smethurst 9780807855980
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $38.34Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the... -
The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472099269
Booksplease Price: $85.29"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."-Arthur... -
The Hopwood Lectures: Sixth Series by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472033546
Booksplease Price: $29.24The prestigious Hopwood Creative Writing Awards were established in 1931 from a bequest of the will of Avery Hopwood, a University of Michigan graduate and one of the most popular and successful... -
House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems by Betsy Sholl
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.96The bluesy, rich, and vital poems in House of Sparrows look for grace and beauty not outside of the suffering world but within it. Betsy Sholl explores the shifting ironies and contradictions in the... -
The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation by Julie Buckner Armstrong
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $49.46This 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... -
The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing by Nicholas Delbanco 9780472069262
Booksplease Price: $36.55"Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name."-Arthur... -
Invisible Friends: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842-1845 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9780674465862
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $42.04Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Benjamin Robert Haydon never met, their lively and topical conversation, initiated in 1842, continued unabated until 1845, about a year before the painter's... -
Blueprints for a House Divided: The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts by Robert M. Hayden 9780472087563
Booksplease Price: $40.03If a house divided against itself cannot stand, does it help to declare it a condominium? This book examines why the common Yugoslav and Bosnian houses came to be divided, and how international... -
Crossroads Modernism: Descent And Emergence In African-American Literary Culture by Edward M. Pavlic 9780816638925
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53An essential reconsideration of black literature and culture and its response to modernityIn the African American encounter with modernism, all was not confrontation. Rather, as Edward M. Pavlic...