Arna Bontemps - An Anthology of African American Poetry [CD]
Arna Bontemps - An Anthology of African American Poetry [CD]
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Arna Bontemps's readings of poems by Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay highlight this compilation. Chosen for their ability to engage and entertain children, the selections are drawn from Bontemps's well-known book, Golden Slippers (Harpers). "These are kind and gentle poems." - AudioFile.
Tracklist:
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Dawn
- Langston Hughes: Youth
- Did You Feed My Cow?
- Bed Bug
- Precious Things
- I'm A Round Town Gent/Take Yo' Time Miss Lucy
- Beatrice M. Murphy: Signs
- Waring Cuney: No Images
- Langston Hughes: Florida Road Workers
- Waring Cuney: Troubled Jesus
- Langston Hughes: Ma Lord
- Countee Cullen: For My Grandmother
- Arna Bontemps: Miracles
- Claude McKay: Spring In New Hampshire
- Claude McKay: Home Thoughts
- Countee Cullen: Brown Boy And Girl Under The Mistletoe
- Wesley Curtright: Heart Of The Woods
- Frank Horne: To James
- Arna Bontemps: Dark Girl
- Langston Hughes: In The Time Of Silver Rain
- Countee Cullen: Red
- Josephine Copeland: New Orleans - Zulu King (At Mardi Gras)
- Claude McKay: Tropics In New York
- Langston Hughes: Trip - San Francisco
- Fenton Johnson: Rulers, Philadelphia
- Langston Hughes: Heaven - The City Called Heaven
- Claude McKay: The Spanish Needle
- Langston Hughes: The Snail
- Countee Cullen: The Unknown Color
- Claude McKay: North And South
- Sterling Brown: Sister Lou
- Fenton Johnson: Aunt Jane Allen
- Fenton Johnson: The Banjo Player
- Langston Hughes: Alabama Earth (At Booker Washington's Grave)
- Countee Cullen: For A Lady I Know
- Sterling Brown: After Winter
- Langston Hughes: Winter Sweetness
- George Douglas Johnson: My Little Dreams
- Countee Cullen: For A Poet
- Langston Hughes: Dreams
- Arna Bontemps: Day Breakers
UPC: 093074504420
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD
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