Description
Spanning Robert Hayden’s distinguished career, this comprehensive collection brings together poems marked by formal precision, historical depth, and profound emotional intelligence. Hayden explores Black history and identity, family and memory, faith, love, injustice, and the quiet resilience of ordinary lives—from intimate domestic moments to portraits of figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Nat Turner, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. His elegant, compassionate verse confronts national tragedy and personal hardship while seeking dignity, connection, and human understanding. A landmark volume by the first African American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, it affirms Hayden’s place among the essential American poets of the twentieth century.
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paperback
Liveright
Published Jan 1, 2013
221 pages
ISBN: 9780871406798
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
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