Collected Poems [Paperback]

Robert Hayden (Author), Frederick Glaysher (Editor), Arnold Rampersad (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 17, 1997

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including American Journal, which was nominated for a National Book Award in its first publication. An introduction by Arnold Rampersad provides a biographical portrait of Hayden and a critical context in which to understand 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. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, and the Russell Loines Award for distinguished poetic achievement from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Arnold Rampersad is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University.

Editorial Reviews

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Akhenaten
American Journal
Approximations
As My Blood Was Drawn
Astronauts
Aunt Jemima Of The Ocean Waves
Baha' U'llah In The Garden Of Ridwan
The Ballad Of Nat Turner
A Ballad Of Remembrance
The Ballad Of Sue Ellen Westerfield
Beginnings
Belsen, Day Of Liberation
Bone-flower Elegy
The Broken Dark
Burly Fading One
Butterfly Piece
Crispus Attucks
Dance The Orange
Dawnbreaker
Day Of The Dead
The Diver
The Dogwood Trees
Double Feature
The Dream
El-hajj Malik El-shabazz
Electrical Storm
Elegies For Paradise Valley
For A Young Artist
Frederick Douglass
Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers
From The Corpse Woodpiles, From The Ashes
Full Moon
Gulls
Homage To Paul Robeson
Homage To The Empress Of The Blues
Ice Storm
Idol
Incense Of The Lucky Virgin
The Islands
John Brown
Kid
Killing The Calves
Kodachromes Of The Island
La Corrida
Lear Is Gay
Letter
A Letter From Phillis Wheatley
The Lions
Locus
Market
Middle Passage
The Mirages
Monet's Waterlilies
The Moose Wallow
Mountains
Mourning Poem For The Queen Of Sunday
'mystery Boy' Looks For Kin In Nashville
Names
Nefert-iti
Night, Death, Mississippi
The Night-blooming Cereus
O Daedalus, Fly Away Home
October
On Lookout Mountain
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Peacock Room
The Performers
Perseus
A Plague Of Starlings (fisk Campus)
The Point (stonington, Connecticut)
The Prisoners
The Rabbi
The Rag Man
The Return
Richard Hunt's 'arachne'
A Road In Kentucky
Runagate Runagate
Smelt Fishing
Snow
The Snow Lamp, Sels.
Soledad
Sphinx
Stars
Sub Specie Aeternitatis
'summertime And The Living'
The Tattooed Man
Theme And Variation
Theory Of Evil
Those Winter Sundays
Tour 5
Traveling Through Fog
Unidentified Flying Object
Veracruz
The Web
The Wheel
The Whipping
Witch Doctor
Words In The Mourning Time
The Year Of The Child
Zeus Over Redeye
Zinnias
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Robert Hayden received numerous awards including a Hopwood Award, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, and the Russell Loines Award for distinguished poetic achievement from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Frederick Glaysher studied writing under a private tutorial with Robert Hayden at the University of Michigan, from which he holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, the latter in English. The author and editor of several works, he edited Hayden’s Collected Prose as well as the Collected Poems. Robert Hayden is a character in Glaysher’s recently published epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, partly set on the moon, at the landing site of Apollo 11.

Arnold Rampersad (Ph.D. Harvard) is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is co-editor (with Deborah E. McDowell) of Slavery and the Literary Imagination, and editor of the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. He is the author of the two-volume biography The Life of Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson: A Biography, and co-author (with Arthur Ashe) of Days of Grace: A Memoir. He is also editor of “The Harlem Renaissance.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Liveright; Reprint edition (February 17, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871401592
• ISBN-13: 978-0871401595
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #582,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars modern master January 16, 2012

By Fred C. Dobbs

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Robert Hayden was my teacher many years ago, a very gentle, talented man. He is an important Black poet and an important, essential American poet whose work will last.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Deserves to be Read More Widely May 16, 2011

By R. Albin TOP 500 REVIEWER

This collection contains all the work of the fine American poet Robert Hayden. An African-American raised in Detroit, Hayden's work includes, but is hardly restricted to, a number of fine to outstanding poems inspired by African-American history. His superb memorial poem for Frederick Douglass is a good example of work in this vein. There are also a number of fine poems drawn from his life experience and his Bahai faith. Overall, I prefer his earlier work, but Hayden was a consistently powerful and interesting poet throughout his career. Like many excellent American poets, his work deserves to be read more widely.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hayden's poetry May 19, 2008

By Rebecca L. Rowley

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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.