Modern Black poets : a collection of critical essays - Gibson, Donald B. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1973)
Gibson, D. B. Introduction.--Redding, J. S. The new Negro poet in the twenties.--Randall, D. The Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties.--Gibson, D. B. The good Black poet and the good gray poet: the poetry of Hughes and Whitman.--Emanuel, J. A. Christ in Alabama: religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes.--Collier, E. W. I do not marvel, Countee Cullen.--A poet's odyssey: Melvin B. Tolson.--Davis, C. T. Robert Hayden's use of history.--Jacobus, L. A. Imamu Amiri Baraka: the quest for moral order.--Taylor, C. Baraka as poet.--Palmer, R. R. The poetry of three revolutionists: Don L. Lee, Sonia Sanchez, and Nikki Giovanni.--Davis, A. P. The new poetry of Black hate.--Humanistic protest in recent black poetry.--Bibliography (p. 167-181)
Keywords: American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans in literature