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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Mid-Atlantic Poets
"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in the prosaically named Mid-Atlantic region. Within its boundaries, which have never been authoritatively agreed, are New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Therefore it is easy to wax lyrical on what, and how, our esteemed poets including Walt Whitman, Frances W Harper, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, William Carlos Williams and Herman Melville have penned in their gloried verse on the societies and lands before and around them."
Edith Wharton, Frances E. W. Harper, Henry James, Herman Melville, Jean Toomer, Joyce Kilmer, Stephen Crane, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, William Carlos Williams (Author), Lee Jackson, Trei House, William Marsh (Narrator)
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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The South-East Poets
"Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. The United States may be many things: the world's policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. Little wonder that's its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up. In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in one of the most diverse and wide-ranging areas of the United States; the South-East. Within its borders are the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Its huge expanse lets our world-class poets including James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson explore a wide range of topics and subjects as they share their poetic talents with us on the States of their birth."
Alice Dunbar Nelson, Arna Bontemps, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, John Gould Fletcher, Sidney Lanier, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston (Author), John-Michael Macdonald, Kelly Burke, Trei House (Narrator)
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African American Women Poets from 1746 to the Harlem Renaissance
"Race and gender have denied many their rightful place in the canon of humanity's arts.In today's world, in the blink of an electronic pulse, words can be transported across continents and peoples and all too easily lost in the ever-growing mass of disposable culture of 'me-me-me' and 'more- more-more'. We can all be 'woke' be 'politically correct' be outraged at a transgression or even a slight. Everything means something to someone. But, once again, more modern times miss the reality of what others in previous generations suffered in the battle for equality and recognition. In America, to be black and a woman over the years this volume covers, was to be chattel, to be bartered, sold, trafficked and used for no more than the whims of others.It was a harsh reality, and yet...., and yet, these women produced verse that sears our souls with the ambition to tell others, to share with us all, what life was like, what was endured and the heartbreak of what their reality was. They could not be overcome; their voice sought to endure and not be smothered. Words are powerful weapons, they form ideas, they create movements and manifestos that can change the world. Many of the women in this volume added to those words, to that desire that the words of their Constitution would someday include themselves. The fight is not yet wholly won, prejudice and inequality still single them out but the flame of hope, of destiny continues to burn fiercely with their names. Their poetry is not solely of protest but rich in a range of subjects embracing tenderness, love, family and includes works by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Frances W Harper, Phyllis Wheatley, Zora Neale Hurston, Esther Popel, Clarissa Scott Delany and many others whose voice voices call to us through the years.01 - African American Women Poets from 1746 to the Harlem Renaissance - An Introduction02 - Bars Fight by Lucy Terry03 - On Virtue by Phyllis Wheatley04 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley05 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley06 - An Hymn to the Evening by Phyllis Wheatley07 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper08 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper09 - The Slave Trade Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten10 - Burial of Sarah by Frances E W Harper11 - Reflections, Written On Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato12 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato13 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke14 - Disappointment by May E Tucker15 - Light In Darkness by Mary E Tucker16 - Hope by Mary E Tucker17 - Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken18 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken19 - Aspiration by Adah Isaacs Menken20 - The Coming Woman by Mary Weston Fordham21 - In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham22 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray23 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray24 - Scraps of Time by Charlotte E Linden25 - Brave Man and Brave Woman by Charlotte E Linden26 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner27 - Thine Own by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard28 - The Black Sampson by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard29 - The Singer and the Song (To Paul Laurence Dunbar) by Carrie Williams Clifford30 - The Widening Light by Carrie Williams Clifford31 - The Door of Hope by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer32 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer33 - The Voice of the Negro by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer34 - The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson35 - Not Dead, But Sleeping by Clara Ann Thompson36 - Treasured Mome'nts by Olivia Ward Bush Banks37 - When Mandy Combs Her Head by Katherine Chapman Tillman38 - Emancipation by Priscilla Jane Thompson39 - To A Deceased Friend by Priscilla Jane Thompson40 - Ain't That Hard. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187341 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187342 - The Prettiest Thing That I Ever Did. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187343 - I Sit and Sew by Alice Dunbar Nelson44 - Sonnet by Alice Dunbar-Nelson45 - In Memoriam by Alice Dunbar Nelson46 - Impressions by Alice Dunbar Nelson47 - At the Grave of the Forgotten by Effie Waller Smith48 - Preparation by Effie Waller Smith49 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké50 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimké51 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké52 - The Heart of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson53 - Transpositions by Georgia Douglas Johnson54 - When I Rise Up by Georgia Douglas Johnson55 - Translation by Anne Spencer56 - White Things by Anne Spencer57 - La Vie C'est la Vie by Jessie Fauset58 - Dead Fires by Jessie Fauset59 - Sometimes by Maggie Pogue Johnson60 - The Negro Has A Chance by Maggie Pogue Johnson61 - Journey's End by Zora Neale Hurston62 - That Hill by Blanche Taylor Dickinson63 - To an Icicle by Blanche Taylor Dickinson64 - Flag Salute by Esther Popel65 - The Mask by Clarissa Scott Delany66 - Joy by Clarissa Scott Delany67 - To Usward by Gwendolyn B Bennett68 - Epitaph by Gwendolyn B Bennett69 - Heritage by Gwendolyn B Bennett70 - My Africa by Gladys May Casely Hayford71 - The Serving Girl by Gladys May Casely Hayford"
Alice Dunbar Nelson, Phyllis Wheatley (Author), Trei House (Narrator)
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Black Words Matter - Poets From The 18th Century To The Harlem Renaissance
"This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle. Over ages, eons and countless generations humanity has sought to better itself. Ideas and cultures have sprung forth creating fertile conditions for change and advancement. We have gathered together as families, clans, tribes and nations in the clear knowledge that together more can be achieved for the individual. New systems have evolved, waxed and waned, been replaced or discarded by bright shiny new ones. From afar the chances of humanity bettering itself must seem promising. But today's generations find themselves searching not only for answers from others but also from themselves, for solutions to turn a world where privilege, wealth and power reside with the few to be the right of the many. These unequal times will not give way easily. Entrenched interests will promise change and deliver little. This is the real history of the human race. We will claim that education, health care and jobs are for everyone and yet continue to mis-educate, to ignore primary care and offer jobs that even a robot would think twice about.Those oppressed by race, creed, gender or colour will find the invisible walls of the status quo difficult to overcome. But there is hope - if we collectively want action. When we don't merely call for that change but when we demand that change from ourselves, and from society. When we charge our political leaders to serve our interests rather than their own.We may be created equal but society, and ourselves, sort, layer and assemble us all into groups, those it can keep underfoot and those who will have an unequal share. Real change requires all of us to change, to recognise that equal opportunity starts from equal access to resources. We need to praise ourselves less and provoke ourselves to do more, together. If the pain is shared the rewards can be shared.This volume does not dwell only on equality but covers a very wide range of subjects from recognised masters of the craft such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phyllis Wheatley to lesser known poets like Mary E Tucker and Charles Lewis Reason.The reality is that we are more interested in changing our phones than changing our attitudes and the real changes that will bring. Both can be done in an instant. In an era of disposable everything we stick rigidly to keeping what we have and yet, bleat that oppression is wrong. Fair-weather activists. The news cycle will pass. So does the moment.....until the next time.In this collection of poems poets down the ages illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle. They call and illustrate the need for change. It's an enduring problem that seeks sensible and enduring solutions. If it be our will both we and society can change.They call and illustrate the need for change."
Frances E. W. Harper, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Darrell Joe, Laurel Lefkow, Trei House (Narrator)
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Black Words Matter - The Journey Of African American Poetry
"This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle. Over ages, eons and countless generations humanity has sought to better itself. Ideas and cultures have sprung forth creating fertile conditions for change and advancement. We have gathered together as families, clans, tribes and nations in the clear knowledge that together more can be achieved for the individual. New systems have evolved, waxed and waned, been replaced or discarded by bright shiny new ones. From afar the chances of humanity bettering itself must seem promising. But today's generations find themselves searching not only for answers from others but also from themselves, for solutions to turn a world where privilege, wealth and power reside with the few to be the right of the many. These unequal times will not give way easily. Entrenched interests will promise change and deliver little. This is the real history of the human race. We will claim that education, health care and jobs are for everyone and yet continue to mis-educate, to ignore primary care and offer jobs that even a robot would think twice about.Those oppressed by race, creed, gender or colour will find the invisible walls of the status quo difficult to overcome. But there is hope - if we collectively want action. When we don't merely call for that change but when we demand that change from ourselves, and from society. When we charge our political leaders to serve our interests rather than their own.We may be created equal but society, and ourselves, sort, layer and assemble us all into groups, those it can keep underfoot and those who will have an unequal share. Real change requires all of us to change, to recognise that equal opportunity starts from equal access to resources. We need to praise ourselves less and provoke ourselves to do more, together. If the pain is shared the rewards can be shared.This volume does not dwell only on equality but covers a very wide range of subjects from recognised masters of the craft such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phyllis Wheatley to lesser known poets like Mary E Tucker and Charles Lewis Reason.The reality is that we are more interested in changing our phones than changing our attitudes and the real changes that will bring. Both can be done in an instant. In an era of disposable everything we stick rigidly to keeping what we have and yet, bleat that oppression is wrong. Fair-weather activists. The news cycle will pass. So does the moment.....until the next time.In this collection of poems poets down the ages illuminate the stain on our humanity and its ever-repeating cycle. They call and illustrate the need for change. It's an enduring problem that seeks sensible and enduring solutions. If it be our will both we and society can change.They call and illustrate the need for change. 1 - Black Words Matter - An Introduction2 - A Poem for Children with Thoughts On Death by Jupiter Hammon3 - An Evening Thought by Jupiter Hammon4 - Bars Fight by Lucy Terry5 - On Virtue by Phyllis Wheatley6 - To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother by Phyllis Wheatley7 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley8 - An Hymn to the Evening by Phyllis Wheatley9 - Praise of Creation by George Moses Horton10 - On the Poetic Muse by George Moses Horton11 - The Slave's Complaint by George Moses Horton12 - Epigram by Arrmand Lanusse13 - The Campaign of 1814-1815 by Hippolyte Castra14 - The Slave Trade Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten15 - A Poem on the Fugitive Slave Law by Elymas Payson Rogers16 - The Spirit Voice or Liberty Call to The Disfranchised by Charles Lewis Reason17 - Silent Thoughts by Charles Lewis Reason18 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson19 - To the White People of America by Joshua McCarter Simpson20 - To.... by James Monroe Whitfield21 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield22 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E W Harper23 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper24 - Burial of Sarah by Frances E W Harper25 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper26 - Reflections, Written On Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato27 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato28 - I Would Be Free by Alfred Gibbs Campbell29 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell30 - Creation Light by James Madison Bell31 - A Bridal Toast by James Madison Bell32 - The Corn Song by John Wesley Holloway33 - The Angel's Visit by Charlotte L Forten Grimke34 - Light In Darkness by Mary E Tucker35 - Disappointment by Mary E Tucker36 - Hope by Mary E Tucker37 - Good-bye. Off For Kansas by John Willis Menard38 - Aspiration by Adah Isaacs Menken39 - Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken40 - Drifts That Bar My Door by Adah Isaacs Menken41 - In Memoriam. Alphonse Campbell Fordham by Mary Weston Fordham42 - The Coming Woman by Mary Weston Fordham43 - Wish for an Overcoat by Alfred Islay Walden44 - A Dream of Glory by Albery Allson Whitman45 - Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray46 - Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray47 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune48 - Brave Man and Brave Woman by Charlotte E Linden49 - Scraps of Time by Charlotte E Linden50 - The Feet of Judas by George Marion McClellan51 - What Constitutes A Negro by Eva Carter Buckner52 - Thine Own by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard53 - The Black Sampson by Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard54 - De Linin' ub de Hymns by Daniel Webster Davis55 - The Widening Light by Carrie Williams Clifford56 - It Was Not Fate by William H Moore57 - To a Skull by Joshua Henry Jones Jnr58 - A Night In June by James Edwin Campbell59 - Ol' Doc Hyar by James Edwin Campbell60 - Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell61 - The Door of Hope by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer62 - Negro Heroines by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer63 - The Voice of the Negro by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer64 - The Angel's Message by Clara Ann Thompson65 - At the Closed Gate of Justice by James D Corrothers66 - Treasured Moments by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks67 - When Mandy Combs Her Head by Katherine Chapman Tillman68 - Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson69 - The Creation by James Weldon Johnson70 - O Black and Unknown Bards by James Weldon Johnson71 - To America by James Weldon Johnson72 - To A Deceased Friend by Priscilla Jane Thompson73 - Emancipation by Priscilla Jane Thompson74 - For the Man Who Fails by Paul Laurence Dunbar75 - Life's Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar76 - Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar77 - The Fount of Tears by Paul Laurence Dunbar78 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar79 - Ain't That Hard. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187380 - The Prettiest Thing That I Ever Did. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187381 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 187382 - Impressions by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson83 - If I Had Known by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson84 - Sonnet by Alice Dunbar-Nelson85 - Star of Ethiopia by Lucian B Watkins86 - The Heart's Desire by Roberet W Justice87 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson88 - The Rubinstein Staccato Etude by R Nathaniel Dett89 - Time to Die by Ray G Dandridge90 - The Negro Soldiers by Roscoe C Jamison91 - Poetry by Claude McKay92 - The White House by Claude McKay93 - Enslaved Poem by Claude McKay94 - The Lynching by Claude McKay95 - Rain Music by Joseph Semon Cotter96 - Is it Because I'm Black by Joseph S Cotter Jnr97 - The Washer-Woman by Otto Leland Bohanan98 - Negro Woman by Lewis Alexander99 - Africa by Lewis Alexander100 - Enchantment by Lewis Alexander101 - Fire! by Wallace Thurman102 - Confession by Wallace Thurman103 - A Brown Girl Dead by Countee Cullen104 - Tableau by Countee Cullen105 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen106 - Jungle Taste by Edward S Silvera107 - Forgotten Dreams by Edward Silvera108 - On the Death of a Child by Edward Silvera"
Countee Cullen, Frances E. W. Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar (Author), Darrell Joe, Laurel Lefkow, Trei House (Narrator)
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