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Hayden's poetry
Is there a resurgence of Hayden's poetry or am I finally hearing more about this sensitive poet who wrote about a glorious future at a time when there was little hope for equity.He dared to speak of a spiritual solution to war and eulogized black heros who get little more than a paragraph in our history books.I appreciated the author's introduction, and especially enjoyed the diversity of Hayden's work in this collection.

What it means to be human
ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) was the first African-American to be appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now titled the U.S. Poet Laureate.He won numerous prizes and awards during the last decade of his life, including the 1975 Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for "distinguished poetic achievement."Hayden stands out among Twentieth Century American, poets not just for his many literary accomplishments, but for the strong vision of faith that illuminates so much of his work.

In addition to well known poems such as "Those Winter Sundays" and "The Whipping," this anthology contains other equally stirring poems including "Aunt Jemima Of The Ocean Waves" which depicts a conversation with the fat womanfrom a Coney Island side-show and "Belsen, Day Of Liberation" dedicated to Rosey Pool, the Dutch teacher of Anne Frank and first translator of her famous diary.

While Hayden writes much about African-American history and culture, his poems do not tell the reader what to think or feel.Instead, his carefully crafted verse weaves images that allow the careful reader to move around in some very unusual territory, some beautiful, some uncomfortable.Hayden puts us in the mind of the oppressor in poems like "Middle Passage" about the famous Amistad incident, and "Night, Death, Mississippi" where we eavesdrop on an old Klan member too frail to attend a lynching with his son, of whom he is proud."Be there with Boy and the rest / if I was well again. /Time was.Time was. / White robes like moonlight / In the sweetgum dark."

Hayden can also be wickedly funny.In "American Journal" written a few years before his death, his narrator is a spy from a distant planet in the galaxy who reports back to his fellow superiors about "this baffling multi peopleextremes and variegationstheir noiserestlessnesstheir almost frightening energy."

In addition to poems about childhood, society, and race, Hayden also writes about the history and central figures of his religion, the Bahá'í Faith.In "Baha' u'llah In The Garden Of Ridwan" he compares the founder of Bahá'í at an important juncture to Christ the night before being crucified w ho prayed to be relieved of his great destiny.In "Dawnbreaker" Hayden describes the torture of one early Bahá'í put to death by having candlesof oil and wick lit within his skin."Ablaze / with candles sconced / in weeping eyes / of wounds."

Despite his numerous awards, Hayden was not well known to many poetry readers until the end of his life.Fortunately, his reputation has increased since Collected Poems was published posthumously.If you are interested in rich, well crafted poetry which explores what it means to be human, try Hayden.AsAunt Jemima says in the above mentioned poem, "And that's the beauty part, I mean, ain't that the beauty part."

Robbie Hayden, school payd 'im
We read his book for my 8th grade english class.If you likeRobert Hayden, Poetry, Etc. this is a very nice book.If you're likemost of the kids in Mr. Nydicks english class, and you would rather chat than discuss the irony and pain of Middle Passage, this isn't the book for you.But if you like interperative poetry, this is a very nice book by a nice author ... Read more

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L.A. 1940.When ex heart-throb movie star, Neville Beaumont, is found dead with a gun in his hand everyone assumes it's suicide.Especially when they find out he was being blackmailed.Frank is not so sure, he does a little digging and doesn't like what he finds.Meanwhile, Bugsy Siegel has arrived in town in a mob move to take over the L.A. rackets, causing a feud between local gang bosses, Mickey Cohen and Jack Dragna.Added to this mix there's a ruthless vigilante killer at large and no-one knows where he'll strike next, least of all, the cops.Down at RKO they're filming the Black Pirate, a swashbuckling technicolor movie, maybe the killer is impressed with the blood-thirsty justice they handed out in old Spanish Main!Frank DeMarco, private eye, is once again on the trail of a killer when he meets ex-silent movie star Lita Barry, beautiful night-club singer, Nadine, and the stunning new raven-haired assistant District Attorney, Laura Shelby, who knows exactly what she wants... and how to get it! ... Read more

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With insights into the #1 New York Times bestselling author's life, work, and career-and little-known facts about her most popular novels-this beautifully designed book celebrates Nora Roberts's enduring legacy of powerful, passionate storytelling.

- The books: a cross-referenced list of Roberts's books-with trivia, quotes, and family trees
- The career: a timeline of Roberts's career, with a list of major milestones and quotes from some of her best reviews
- The fans: inspiring true stories of how Roberts's books have changed her fans' lives, a list of fan clubs, photos of her with her fans, and "favorite" lists-Best Kiss, Best Hero, Best Opening Line-all voted on by fans
- The phenomenon: romance writers, industry-insiders, booksellers, reviewers, and fans talk about Roberts's success

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Nora Roberts reference
This is a nice reference book for Nora Roberts and her books. Lots of information about Nora's writing and her life. Alphabetical list of her books with cross references to compilations that have been put out of her work with related subjects. Lists the order of some of the family stories and series. My only complaint is that the book only goes so far. A lot of her newer titles are not in this book as it was published a while ago. Still is a good reference.

A waste of paper
The descriptions of all of Ms. Roberts' books are extremely brief (just a line or two), in alphabetical rather than chronological order.There is no index, a gross mistake.The various articles about the writer are shallow.The black and white photos are small and very grainy.The color photos of the book jackets are the size of commemorative stamps.In fact, there just isn't anything that is worthwhile in this work.The reader would do better to read Amazon reviews of her various books and the comments of those who have actually read the novels.

Encompassing
I love this book.Mostly I wanted to be able to read the descriptions of each book and decide then if I had already read them.This book is helpful, as the picture each of the other covers each title was published in.It also has 2 other sections, but I wasnt interested in those.Worth the money.I thought I had read almost all of her books!, but was I wrong!

Interesting reading . . . .
Nora's fans have been waiting a long time for this book - the definitive behind-the-scenes look at "Nora's World".

It's laid out in different sections, from Nora's travels around the world, websites to visit, inside comments from her publishers and booksellers, a fan section and a great section on ALL her published works including Birthright, Remember When and her forthcoming Key trilogy. Each book carries a small synopsis and color photographs of all the different covers used and links to other books if its part of a series. Really comprehensive.

Peppered throughout the book there are photo's of Nora, her family, her office where she writes and Nora on her holiday's.

One small quibble. This book was due to be published a year ago and in certain sections it shows - reference was made to "her latest bestseller Three Fates" at one point. In other sections an editor's note was added with an update - it seem's a shame that the attention to detail was missing in some areas of an otherwise impressive, enjoyable read.

A true pleasure for fans...
Nora Roberts has emerged as one of the queen's of romance, earning a place in the hearts of reader's around the world. What makes her special out of the hundreds of authors populating bookshelves? The Nora Roberts Companion answers that. Biographical details and an explanation of her methods give fans insight into how the books they love come to be. Through the eyes of her friends and fans and the pages of her own journals, we learn how well loved Nora is. It will come as no surprise to many that Eve Dallas and Roarke top the polls of favorites. We are also given hints of upcoming novels and a concordance of past ones. The only drawbacks of these two features is having to wait for the former and suddenly realizing how many you might have missed of the latter.

***** Like the companion volumes written to many television shows such as the X files or Buffy, the Nora Roberts Companion will be a pleasure for true fans and may be the perfect vehicle for new fans to come aboard. ***** ... Read more

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Top Ten --
Robert Hayden, who happens to be African-American, is in my top ten favorite poets, so my bias is obvious.Nonethless, highly recommended for those who want an accurate representation of a particular people's experiences on this continent, from the _Amistad_ case, to slavery and pre-Civil War, to post-Civil War.

Oddly: I had an older printing of this volume, unidentified as first edition, but identified as fourth printing.As it was printed in 1975, there was no bar-coding on it.This edition is expressly represented as first edition, first printing, and yet it does have bar-coding.

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Robert Hayden (1913--80) belonged to the generation of African American writers that followed the Harlem Renaissance--the generation of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright, among others. This collection of essays on Hayden by leading critics and poets charts his growing reputation as a major writer, the author of some of the twentieth century's most important poems on African American themes, including the famed "Middle Passage" and "Frederick Douglass." The pieces illuminate the themes and techniques that established Hayden as a key modernist writer with affinities both to poets such as T. S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca, and W. B. Yeats, and to traditions of African American writings, traditions exemplified by such figures as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.
Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry covers sixty years of commentary, book reviews, and essays, and includes newly published material by Hayden himself, making it an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this poet's vision of experience, artistry, and influence. Forty works examine the life and poetry of the first African American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post now called Poet Laureate) and the first to receive the Grand Prix de la Poesie at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, in 1966. This collection will be the standard text on Hayden for many years and will provide an invaluable aid to students, scholars, and the poet's growing number of admirers around the world.
Laurence Goldstein is Professor of English, University of Michigan, and editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review. His books include The American Poet at the Movies. Robert Chrisman is founding editor of The Black Scholar. A poet and essayist, he is a Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches literature and media in the Department of African-American Studies.
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Genocide Studies is one of the fastest-growing fields in the social sciences, attracting students from a wide range of disciplines (including history, sociology, political science, philosophy, law, anthropology, and cultural studies). The Historiography of Genocide is the first book to offer an overview of the discipline as a whole. In original essays specially commissioned for this book, leading scholars in their fields offer indispensable analyses of complex themes, approaches and explanations, drawn from literatures that, for linguistic and other reasons, are often obscure or inaccessible. Tracing the emergence of genocide studies, analyzing its central concepts, methods and research themes, and providing detailed guides to the rich and varied historiographies of many cases of genocide, this book is an invaluable guide to the literature. ... Read more

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This text examines contemporary African-American poets from Robert Hayden to Rita Dove. Included is an introduction from Harold Bloom and numerous essays from some of the most respected critics of our time. Learn more about these important poets with this volume of Bloom's Modern Critical Views.

This title, African-American Poets: Volume II, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of African-American Poets: Volume II through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on African-American Poets: Volume II, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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Excellent --
Robert Hayden's last volume of poetry before the "Collected".Known especially for the sequence about his childhood in detroit.

An excellent poet with a compelling biography.

This is apparently an actual first edition/first printing.
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Vintage paperback. A non-fiction account of the OSS during World War II. ... Read more