Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems

by Robert Hayden

Overview

Nothing superfluous, nothing lacking. William Hazlitt’s highest praise for good prose can justly be applied to the poetry of Robert Hayden.

In his new poems, as before, but with a new mixture of modes, Hayden takes up, celebrates, and contends with the history of his people. He is involved with his Black Americanness, without being confined by it. The famous story elements can be found here but above all a renewed delight in the revelatory possibilities of the languages. In addition to the new poems, all the best of Hayden’s earlier work is here, including much that has for too long been unavailable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871401069
Publisher:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	11/17/1975
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

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.