Book Descriptions
for My Black Me by Arnold Adoff
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The compiler's new introduction to the 20th anniversary edition of his important fifty-poem anthology encourages youth to "use these poems for power and love" and to "Stay strong for yourself. Strong for the people." He suggests that the poems are "for all sisters and brothers. Of every race. Every open face." The 26 poets represented include Imamu Amiri Baraka, Sam Cornish, Lucille Clifton, Julia Fields, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Ray Patterson and Sonia Sanchez. (Age 11 and older)
CCBC Choices 1994. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be African-American? What is the black experience? The spirited voices of twenty-six African-American poets speak to these and other questions in fifty collected poems that explore the African-American worlds. The rich words of this treasury rang out for the first time over twenty years ago, and will continue to shout their message for years to come.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.