ROBERT HAYDEN
Collected Poems
Edited by Frederick Glaysher
Introduction by Arnold Rampersad
Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African American poets of the twentieth century. This definitive edition collects that exquisite body of work, including American Journal, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Arnold Rampersad's splendid new introduction provides a biographical portrait of Hayden and a critical context for his poetry.
Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. Arnold Rampersad is the biographer of Langston Hughes and Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University.
1996 / paperback / ISBN 0-87140-159-2
1995 / hardcover/ ISBN 0-87140-651-9
240 pages / poetry
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