Angle of ascent: New and selected poems

By Robert Hayden

Book Overview

In his new poems, as before, but with a new mixture of modes, Hayden takes up, celebrates, and contends with the history of his people. He is involved with his Black Americanness, without being confined by it. The famous story elements can be found here but above all a renewed delight in the revelatory possibilities of the languages. In addition to the new poems, all the best of Hayden s earlier work is here, including much that has for too long been unavailable."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871406136
• ISBN13: 9780871406132
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Liveright
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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Robert Hayden, who happens to be African-American, is in my top ten favorite poets, so my bias is obvious. Nonethless, highly recommended for those who want an accurate representation of a particular people's experiences on this continent, from the _Amistad_ case, to slavery and pre-Civil War, to post-Civil War. Oddly: I had an older printing of this volume, unidentified as first edition, but identified as fourth printing. As it was printed in 1975, there was no bar-coding on it. This edition is expressly represented as first edition, first printing, and yet it does have bar-coding.