Product Description: Over 360 essays and analyses of the important works of African American writers of all genres, including long fiction, short fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction are given the Masterplots treatment in this revised set. New material covered includes memoirs by Maya Angelou and Jamaica Kincaid, novels by Ralph Ellison, Terry McMillan and Toni Morrison, poetry by Cornelius Eady, and young adult literature by Gwendolyn Brooks...read more

Product Description: Poetry. African American studies. "Williams' intensely moving first book bridges more gaps than many words (and careers) thrice as long: quiet humor to quiet anger; weighty concerns (cybernetics, anthropology, astronomy) to formal invention; brilliant appropriation to startling beauty; street language to a full panoply of sophisticated theory; above all between African American concerns and those of the plain vanilla majority...read more