The Vintage Book of African American Poetry Nature_Gift_Guide “Few will escape the allure

“Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes

in search of a new life back in England

which means

and families were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals

profound sacrifices

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry Nature_Gift_Guide “Few will escape the allureIn The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States 200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden the