Collected Poems

Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent, and American Journal, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Also included is an introduction by American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, as well as an afterword by Arnold Rampersad that provides a critical and historical context. In Hayden s work the actualities of history and culture became the launching places for flights of imagination and intelligence. His voice characterized by musical diction and an exquisite feeling for the formality of pattern is a seminal one in American life and literature."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/01/2013
ISBN: 9780871406798
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2013 pg. 11
Shelf Awareness 04/05/2013
Books & Culture 11/01/2014 pg. 35