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THIS IS MY CENTURY
NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS |
| By: |
Margaret Walker, Nikky Finney (Foreword), Maryemma Graham |
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Paperback |
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£21.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820345970 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820345970 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 October, 2013 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Language: |
English, Multiple languages |
| Description: |
Addressing the literature and culture of black America, This Is My Century, a classic first published in 1989, marked a significant contribution to American Poetry, bringing together Walker's selection of one hundred of her own poems. |
| Synopsis: |
Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942. Over the next fifty years she enriched American literature in endless ways through her writings and, in 1993, she received an American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. This Is My Century is Walker's own defining summation of her career. Selected by the author herself, the one hundred poems include thirty-seven previously uncollected pieces and the entire contents of three hard-to-find volumes: the award-winning For My People (1942), Prophets for a New Day (1970), and October Journey (1975). |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
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