Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro poets (edited by Robert Hayden), 1967.
KALEIDOSCOPE - Poems By American Negro Poets is a 1967 poetry anthology edited by Robert Hayden, featuring the poems of 42 major and less well known African-American poets of the 1960s.
ISBN: 0152420010 9780152420017 OCLC Number: 1974886
Poets represented[]
- Mari Evans (The World I See)
- Naomi Long Madgett (The Reckoning and Two Poems from "Trinity: A Dream Sequence")
- Gerald Barrax (The Sacrifice, Christmas 1959 et cetera,
Patroness, The Death of a Squirrel in McKinley Park and Black Narcissus
- Calvin C. Hernton (Young Negro Poet and Madhouse)
- Phillis Wheatley (His Excellency, General Washington and On Being Brought from Africa to America)
- Carl Wendell Hines Jr. (Two Jazz Poems and A Dead Man's Dream)
- Margaret Danner
- Dudley Randall
- Margaret Walker
- Gloria Oden
- Bob Kaufman (To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room, Perhaps,
Who Has Seen the Wind? and Response)
- Julia Fields (Madness One Monday Evening)
- Samuel Allen
- Myron O'Higgins
- Arna Bontemps
- Sterling A. Brown
- Robert Hayden
- Countee Cullen
- David Henderson (poet) (Sketches of Harlem)
- George Moses Horton (George Moses Horton, Myself and On Liberty and Slavery)
- Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones)
- Arna Bontemps
- Anne Spencer
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Frank Smith Horne
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (The Paradox)
- Frances Harper (The Slave Auction)
- James Baldwin
- Hoyt W. Fuller
- James Emanuel
- Owen Dodson
- Henry Dumas
- Claude McKay (Spring in New Hampshire)
- Frank Marshall Davis
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Langston Hughes
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (To a Captious Critic, The Poet, The Haunted Oak, Robert Gould Shaw, The Debt)
- James Weldon Johnson (Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day)
- Julius Lester (Poems)
- Conrad Kent Rivers (The Invisible Man, The Still Voice of Harlem, The Subway)
- Oliver Pitcher (Salute, Raison d'Étre)
1971 Russian Translation[]
In 1971, a Russian translation was published in the Soviet Union, Негритянская поэзия США. 20 век (Negro poetry USA. 20th century) edited by Е. Осенева.
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External Links[]
- Kaleidoscope at Amazon.com
- Kaleidoscope at WorldCat