The Book Of American Negro Poetry: Chosen And Edited With An Essay On The Negro's Creative Genius By James Weldon Johnson

Johnson's collection of American Negro Poetry does an excellent job of giving credibility to the quality of Negro writers. Even though I think an artist is judge by the reader, Johnson let's the reader know that the different contributors were able to climb towering walls to get their work seen. How can this work be silenced any more. Read it for your children, read it to your children.

Great book! I chose this book for many reasons. Chief among them is to become familiar with the literary/poetic contributions ofAfrican American poets and literary figures. The book is definitely worth adding to your book collection. It provides education, historical perspective, and inspiration. I uploaded to both of my Kindle's. I do a lot of public speaking and refer to many of the poems to add substance and aesthetics to my presentations. Overall, I highly recommend this book!

I find the book by James Weldon Johnson is an excellent read a should be a book that should be in any reader's library who is interested study or writing poetry of their own.

the collection pretty much covers a time rich with the creative genious of an isolated and brutally abused people..deprived of education but endowed with a memory that couldn't be erased by hatred, lies brutality or time these resilient people leave us these gems.

Love this book learned that there's a whole lot of different black people wrote poetry that wasn't American but from all over the world wow impressive