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First edition. Includes the works of 147 poets written over a period of 200 years; also included are supplementary sections on poets from the Caribbean, and another containing works of white poets who have written about Negro life. The wide-ranging list of contributors includes Lucy Terry, Jessie Fauset, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Melvin Tolson, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as Hughes and Bontemps, Claude McKay, Nicol?s GuillZn, AimZ CZsaire, Elizabteth Bishop, Kenneth Patchen, Josephine Miles, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro and Walt Whitman. Biographical notes, list of translators, author index and index of first lines. xvii, 429 pp. Good+ in a near fine dust jacket (some fading to the spine of the book, shelfwear, prev owner's name and spotting to 2 pages in the table of contents, but overall a tight and clean, straight copy; dust jacket is exceptionally bright). A nice copy of a classic work. .

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