I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans by Arnold Adoff

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Arnold Adoff with Quincy Troupe, Joseph White, Al Young, Toi Derricotte, Margaret Walker, Lucille Clifton, Jean Toomer, Raymond Richard Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Haki Madhubuti, Alice Walker, Frank Marshall Davis, Owen Dodson, Etheridge Knight, Robert A. Davis, Lance Jeffers, Sterling A. Brown, Sam Cornish, Richard Wright, Myron O'Higgins, Randall Dudley, Nikki Giovanni, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, Quandra Prettyman, Ray Durem, Primus St. John, Benny Andrews, I.A., Conrad Kent Rivers, George Love, Amiri Baraka, Rudine Sims Bishop, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Michael S. Harper, Samuel W. Allen, Claude McKay, Robert Hayden, Fenton Johnson, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Rita Dove, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mari Evans, Audre Lorde, Calvin C. Hernton, Langston Hughes

192 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction poetry young adult challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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I Am the Darker Brother' exposes the quintessential African American, a proud, lonely, vulnerable yet independent human being who has forged out of hardship that combination of endurance, understanding, and spirit called soul.

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