Anthologies of African American Writing

Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945

"Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945" . Ed. Michael Harper and Anthony Walton. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. xiv+327 pp.

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) -- Gloria Oden (b. 1923) -- Mari Evans (b. 1923) -- Dolores Kendrick (b. 1927) -- Raymond Patterson (b. 1929) -- Derek Walcott (b. 1930) -- Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- Gerald Barrax (b. 1933) -- Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) -- Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Jay Wright (b. 1935) -- Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) -- Jayne Cortez (b. ca. 1936) -- Clarence Major (b. 1936) -- Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) -- Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) -- Al Young (b. 1939) -- Haki Madhubuti (b. 1942) -- Sherley Anne Williams (b. 1944).; Ralph Dickey (1945-1972) -- Calvin Forbes (b. 1945) -- Marilyn Nelson Waniek (b. 1946) -- Al (b. 1947) -- Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) -- George Barlow (b. 1948) -- Christopher Gilbert (b. 1948) -- Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1948) -- Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) -- Rita Dove (b. 1952) -- Thylias Moss (b. 1954) -- Cornelius Eady (b. 1954) -- Reuben Jackson (b. 1956) -- Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962). [Detailed contents available in WorldCat.]

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• "Beginning with Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks and ending with Reuben Jackson and Elizabeth Alexander—with Walcott, Baraka, Lorde, Jay Wright, Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, and twenty-three others in between—it offers abundant evidence of the vitality of African-American poetry" (Kinnamon 1997: 471).

Kinnamon 1997: 471
• Indexed in "The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry" (1999)

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