Hardback. New. This reference identifies key contributors to the Black Arts Movement the name given to a group of poets artists dramatists musicians and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. This book also discusses major works produced during the period as well as significant publications influential groups and organizations. hardcover
Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Through 100 of his best poems many never collected or published and a detailed biographical monograph Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring Cuney introduces readers to a newly recovered Harlem Renaissance poet and to the hardcover
Hardback. New. <b>A treasury of poetry and prose from an unsung trailblazer of Black literature</b> <br /> <br /> Lucia M. Pitts 1904-1973 was an African American writer and Army veteran whose story has never been told. Her poetry including love lyrics of striking sensuality and honesty was admired by Langston Hughes Countee Cullen and Dorothy West. Her work first appeared during the Harlem Renaissance influenced by Harriet Monroe's <i>Poetry</i> magazine and blues singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. A native of Chicago's Bronzeville Pitts challenged discrimination and segregation throughout her remarkable life both as a member of President Franklin Roosevelt's 'Black Cabinet' and as the first African American woman employed at the War Department. Then in 1943 Pitts joined the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion the Army's only all-Black all-female battalion which later received the Congressional Gold Medal. <br /> <br /> Pitts's own account of her service with the Six Triple Eight however has remained unpublished until now. This volume brings together a biography of Pitts her complete military memoir and one hundred of her finest poems. hardcover
Midhurst: Middleton Press 1985. Branch line to Tentderden Afine clean hardcover bright clean boards We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions and all types of Academic Literature. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1985. Midhurst: Middleton Press, 1985.
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