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The Forerunners: Black Poets in America

Woodie King (Editor), Addison Gayle (Contributor), Dudley Randall (Contributor)

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A selection of poems by sixteen Black poets who came to prominence in the thirties, forties, and fifties, including Bontemps, Brooks, Owen, Dodson, Robert Hayden, and Jay Wright.

160 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1981
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