Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. – 200 Years

Artista: Bontemps, Arna

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: FOWY

Catalogo: 9792

Faixas: 1.1 Terry, Lucy: Bars Fight
1.2 Dunbar, Paul Laurence: Dawn
1.3 Dunbar, Paul Laurence: Little Brown Baby
1.4 Dunbar, Paul Laurence: Compensation
1.5 Grimke, Angelina Weld: The Black Finger
1.6 Toomer, Jean: Song of the Sun
1.7 Johnson, James Weldon: The Creation
1.8 Johnson, Georgia Douglas: My Little Dreams
1.9 Johnson, Fenton: The Banjo Player
1.10 Horne, Frank: To James
1.11 Brown, Sterling a: Sister Lou
1.12 Hughes, Langston: Havana Dreams
1.13 Hughes, Langston: Song for a Dark Girl
1.14 Cullen, Countie: For a Poet
1.15 Cullen, Countie: For a Lady I Know
1.16 Cullen, Countie: Saturday’s Child
1.17 Cullen, Countie: Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds
1.18 Cullen, Countie: From the Dark Tower
1.19 Cullen, Countie: Yet Do I Marvel
1.20 Hayes, Donald Jeffrey: Poet
1.21 Cuney, Waring: No Images
1.22 Johnson, Helene: The Road
1.23 Hayden, Robert E.: Frederick Douglass
1.24 Bontemps, Arna: A Black Man Talks of Rivers
1.25 Bontemps, Arna: Miracles
1.26 Bontemps, Arna: Nocturne at Bethesda
1.27 Bontemps, Arna: Southern Mansion
1.28 Bontemps, Arna: A Note of Humility
1.29 Bontemps, Arna: The Daybreakers
1.30 Bontemps, Arna: The Return
1.31 Wheatley, Phyllis: His Excellency General Washington
1.32 McKay, Claude: Flame-Heart

Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. is the aural complement to “The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949,” edited by Langston Hughes along with Arna Bontemps – who reads the selections heard on this album. This collection characterizes the rich history of poetry in the African American community, including slaves such as Phyllis Wheatley who “won” their freedom with this skill and whose poem “His Excellency General Washington” may be heard here.