25—LITERATURE—Poetry

1228

Adoff, Arnold, comp. I am the darker brother; an anthology of modern poems by Negro Americans. Drawings by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins. New York, Macmillan [1968] 128 p. illus. PS591.N4A65

1229

Bontemps, Arna W., ed. American Negro poetry. New York, Hill and Wang [1963] 197 p. PS591.N4B58

1230

Bontemps, Arna W., comp. Golden slippers, an anthology of Negro poetry for young readers. With drawings by Henrietta Bruce Sharon. New York, Harper [c1941] 220 p. illus., plates. PS591.N4B6

"Biographies": p. 200-215.

1231

Braithwaite, William S. B. The house of falling leaves, with other poems. Boston, J. W. Luce, 1908. 112 p. PS3503.R246H7 1908

Partly reprinted from various periodicals.

1232

Braithwaite, William S. B. Lyrics of life and love. Boston, H. B. Turner, 1904. 80 p. port. PS3503.R246L8 1904

1233

Braithwaite, William S. B. Selected poems. New York, Coward-McCann [1948] 96 p. PS3503.R246A6 1948 [TR: Braithwaite, William Stanley]

1234

Brewer, John Mason, ed. Heralding dawn; an anthology of verse, selected and edited, with a historical summary on the Texas Negroes' verse-making, by J. Mason Brewer, and with a preface by Henry Smith. [Dallas, June Thomason, Print., c1936] 7 p. l., 45 p. ports. PS591.N4B65

Includes biographical sketches of the authors.

"Bibliography and acknowledgment": 3d prelim. leaf.

1235

Brooks, Gwendolyn. Annie Allen. [Poems]. New York, Harper [1949] 60 p. port. PS3503.R7244A7

1236

Brooks, Gwendolyn. In the Mecca; poems. New York, Harper & Row [1968] 54 p. PS3503.R7244I5

1237

Brown, Sterling A. Southern road, poems; drawings by E. Simms Campbell. New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1932] xv, 135 p. plates. PS3503.R833S6 1932

1238

Charters, Samuel B. The poetry of the blues. With photographs by Ann Charters. New York, Oak Publications [1963] 111 p. illus. PS591.N4C4

1239

Cullen, Countee. The black Christ & other poems. With decorations by Charles Cullen. New York, Harper, 1929. 110 p. illus., plates. PS3505.U287B6 1929

1240

Cullen, Countee, ed. Caroling dusk, an anthology of verse by Negro poets. Decorations by Aaron Douglas. New York, Harper, 1927. xxii, 237 p. PS591.N4C8

1241

Cullen, Countee. Color. New York, Harper, 1925. xvii, 108 p. PS3505.U287C6 1925

1242

Cullen, Countee. Copper sun. With decorations by Charles Cullen. New York, Harper, 1927. 89 p. illus. PS3505.U287C65 1927

1243

Cullen, Countee. On these I stand; an anthology of the best poems of Countee Cullen. Selected by himself and including six new poems never before published. New York, Harper [1947] 197 p. PS3505.U287A6 1947

1244

Cuney, Waring, Langston Hughes, and Bruce M. Wright, eds. Lincoln University poets; centennial anthology [1854-1954]. Foreword by Horace Mann Bond; introduction by J. Saunders Redding. New York, Fine Editions Press [1954] 72 p. PS591.N4C84

1245

Dodson, Owen. Powerful long ladder. New York, Farrar, Straus, 1946. 103 p. PS3507.O364P6

1246

Dunbar, Paul L. The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, with the introduction to "Lyrics of lowly life," by W. D. Howells. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1913. xxxii, 289 p. port. PS1556.A1 1913

1247

Dunbar, Paul L. Lyrics of lowly life. New York, Arno Press, 1969. xx, 208 p. (The American Negro, his history and literature) PS1556.L6 1969

Afro-American culture series.

Reprint of the 1899 ed.

1248

Dunbar, Paul L. Oak and ivy. Dayton, Ohio, Press of United Brethren Pub. House, 1893. 62 p. DHU

First ed. of Dunbar's first work; includes 13 poems not in The Complete Poems (1913).

1249

Hayden, Robert E. A ballad of remembrance. London, P. Breman, 1962. 72 p. (Heritage series, v. 1) PS3515.A9363B3

1250

Hayden, Robert E. Heart-shape in the dust; poems. Detroit, Falcon Press [c1940] 63 p. PS3515.A9363H4 1940

1251

Hayden, Robert E., comp. Kaleidoscope; poems by American Negro poets, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hayden. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1967] xxiv, 231 p. ports. (Curriculum-related books) PS591.N4H3

1252

Hayden, Robert E. Selected poems. New York, October House [1966] 79 p. PS3515.A9363A6 1966 [TR: Hayden, Robert Earl]

1253

Hughes, Langston. Fields of wonder. New York, Knopf, 1947. 114 p. PS3515.U274F45

1254

Hughes, Langston. Fine clothes to the Jew. New York, Knopf, 1927. 89 p. PS3515.U274F5 1927

1255

Hughes, Langston. New Negro poets U.S.A. Foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks. Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1964] 127 p. PS591.N4H8

1256

Hughes, Langston. One-way ticket [poems]; illustrations by Jacob Lawrence. New York, Knopf, 1949 [c1948] xvii, 136 p. illus. PS3515.U274O5

1257

Hughes, Langston. The panther & the lash; poems of our times. New York, Knopf, 1967. 101 p. PS3515.U274P3

1258

Hughes, Langston, and Arna W. Bontemps, eds. The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949; an anthology. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1949. xviii, 429 p. PN6109.7.H8

1259

Hughes, Langston. Selected poems. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. New York, Knopf, 1959. 297 p. illus. PS3515.U274A6 1959

1260

Hughes, Langston. Shakespeare in Harlem. With drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. New York, Knopf, 1942. 124 p. illus. PS3515.U274S5

"A book of light verse."—4th prelim. leaf.

1261

Hughes, Langston. The weary blues. With an introduction by Carl Van Vechten. New York, Knopf, 1926. 109 p. PS3515.U274W4 1926

1262

Johnson, Georgia D. An autumn love cycle. New York, H. Vinal, 1928. xix, 70 p. front. PS3519.O253A8 1928

1263

Johnson, Georgia D. The heart of a woman, and other poems. With an introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite. Boston, Cornhill Co., 1918. 62 p. [PS3601.J6H4 1918] [TR: PS3519.O253H4 1918]

1264

Johnson, James W., ed. The book of American Negro poetry, chosen and edited, with an essay on the Negro's creative genius. New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1931] 300 p. music. PS591.N4J6 1931

"Revised edition."

"Books suggested for collateral reading": p. 295-296.

1265

Johnson, James W. Fifty years & other poems. With an introduction by Brander Matthews. Boston, Cornhill Co. [c1917] xiv, 92 p. PS3519.O2625F5

Reprinted in part from various periodicals.

1266

Johnson, James W. God's trombones; seven Negro sermons in verse. Drawings by Aaron Douglas, lettering by C. B. Falls. New York, Viking Press, 1927. 56 p. plates. PS3519.O2625G6 1927

1267

Jones, LeRoi. The dead lecturer; poems. New York, Grove Press [1964] 79 p. [PS3519.O4545D4] [TR: PS3552.A583D4 Baraka, Imamu Amiri]

1268

Kerlin, Robert T. Negro poets and their poems. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1935] xxi, 342 p. illus., ports. PS591.N4K4 1935

"Index of authors, with biographical and bibliographical notes": p. 323-335.

1269

[Lanusse, Armand], comp. Creole voices; poems in French by free men of color, first published in 1845, edited by Edward Maceo Coleman. With a foreword by H. Carrington Lancaster. A Centennial ed. Washington, Associated Publishers, 1945. xlvi, 130 p. PQ3937.L8L32

This anthology, compiled by Armand Lanusse, who was also one of the principal contributors, was originally published in New Orleans under title: Les cenelles, choix de poésies indigènes.

Present edition includes poems of V. E. Rillieux and P. A. Desdunes, two later poets (p. [109]-128).

1270

Major, Clarence, comp. The new black poetry. New York, International Publishers [1969] 156 p. PS591.N4M3

1271

Murphy, Beatrice M., ed. Ebony rhythm; an anthology of contemporary Negro verse. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, c1948] 162 p. (Granger index reprint series) PS591.N4M76 1968

1272

Murphy, Beatrice M., ed. Negro voices; illustrations by Clifton Thompson Hill. New York, H. Harrison [c1938] 173 p. illus. PS591.N4M8

At head of title: An anthology of contemporary verse.

1273

Pipes, James. Ziba. With decorations by Edith Mahier. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. 188 p. illus. PS3531.I79Z3

1274

Pool, Rosey E., ed. Beyond the blues, new poems by American Negroes. Lympne, Kent, Hand and Flower Press [1962] 188 p. PS591.N4P6

Bibliography: p. 186-188.

1275

Rollins, Charlemae H., comp. Christmas gif'; an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories, written by and about Negroes. Line drawings by Tom O'Sullivan. Book design by Stan Williamson. Chicago, Follett Pub. Co. [1963] 119 p. illus. PS509.C56R6

1276

Tolson, Melvin B. Harlem gallery. With an introduction by Karl Shapiro. Book 1. The curator. New York, Twayne [1965] 173 p. PS3539.O334H3

1277

Tolson, Melvin B. Libretto for the Republic of Liberia. New York, Twayne Publishers [1953] 1 v. (unpaged) PS3539.O334L5 [TR: (Rare Bk Coll)]

1278

Tolson, Melvin B. Rendezvous with America. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1944. 121 p. PS3539.O334R4

1279

Turner, Lucy M. 'Bout cullud folkses; poems. New York, H. Harrison [1938] 64 p. [PS3601.T8B6 1938] [TR: PS3539.U8536B6 1938]

1280

Walker, Margaret. For my people. With a foreword by Stephen Vincent Benét. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1942. 58 p. (The Yale series of younger poets, [41]) PS3545.A517F6

1281

Wegelin, Oscar. Jupiter Hammon, American Negro poet; selections from his writings and a bibliography; with five facsimiles. New York, Ninety-nine copies printed for C. F. Heartman, 1915. 51 p. facsims., front. (Heartman's historical series, no. 13) PS767.H15Z8

"No. 90 of 91 copies printed on Alexandra Japan paper."

1282

Wheatley, Phillis. Poems. Edited, with an introduction, by Julian D. Mason, Jr. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1966. lviii, 113 p. facsims., port. PS866.W5 1966

1283

Wheatley, Phillis. Poems and letters; first collected edition, ed. by Chas. Fred. Heartman; with an appreciation by Arthur A. Schomburg. New York, C. F. Heartman [1915] 111 p. port. (Heartman's historical series, no. 8) PS866.W5 1915

No. 20 of 350 copies printed on Ben Day paper.

1284

Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. London, Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773. 124 p. port. PS866.W5 1773

1284a

White, Newman Ivey, and Walter C. Jackson, eds. An anthology of verse by American Negroes, edited with a critical introduction, biographical sketches of the authors, and bibliographical notes. With an introduction by James Hardy Dillard. Durham, N.C., Trinity College Press, 1924. 250 p. (Trinity College publications) PS591.N4W5

"Bibliographical and critical notes": p. 214-237.

1285

Wilson, Joseph T. Voice of a new race. Original selections of poems, with a trilogy and oration. Hampton, Va., Normal School Steam Press, 1882. 43 p. PS3334.W58