The brutalities of American life have left deep scars in our literature, few more evident than the long absence of African American poets. Among the exceptions, at least two black poets published work ...
Edited and Introduced by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and David Bradley Modern Library. 441 pp. $14.95 "I didn't start as a dialect poet," Paul Laurence Dunbar told James Weldon Johnson in 1901. Dunbar had ...