African American Poetry:

250 years of Struggle and Song

Editor: Kevin Young

For each of the books on the list, I am not saying much. I'll leave it to you to Google to find out more. There were so many books that could have been on the list, but we made a choice of a few and gave them to select friends and family. I was hoping I could figure out a way to make them all digitally available for all friends and family, but that may be something we have to figure out for next year ;-).

From NYTimes Review by Parul Sehgal:

The new Library of America anthology “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song,” edited by Kevin Young, is a monumental tribute to that persistence, from the colonial period to the present. It features poems on injustice, harassment, hunger — protests on the page — but also rapturous odes to music and food, to gawking at beautiful strangers, to boredom and birth pains and menopause, and, yes, to moon, elms and lilacs, too.

Where to buy

• Amazon