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61) Maya Angelou
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of the African American poet's work which celebrates childhood, work, solitude, aging, courage, and the experience of freedom.
62) Clawhammer
Author
Series
Sailing thrillers (Sam Llewellyn) volume 7
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
66) Langston Hughes
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the Harlem poet who spent his career writing about the African-American experience in America.
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged. Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson’s correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn’s...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Description
An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.
76) Carl Sandburg
Author
Language
English
Description
Life of America'a popular poet and Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Lincoln.