Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry

Name: Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
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ISBN: 9780689812095

ISBN-10: 0689812094

ISBN-13: 9780689812095

Edition: 1997

Authors: Ashley Bryan

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Why an alphabet book of African American poets? Simply as a way of presenting the work of many poets, poets who write for adults as well as children, in a form that both children and adults can enjoy. Though this is not an alphabet book in the traditional sense, it is an A to Z look at twenty-five poems and one African American spiritual selected by Ashley Bryan from a wide range of African American poets. His selections are, for the most part, not complete poems, but fragments -- samples that are complete in their own way, and that inspired him to create pictures that capture the essence of the poetry in another form. his marvelous paintings, in tempera and gouache, are his salute to the…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Publication date: 8/1/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Size: 9.00" wide x 12.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English