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Ronald Primeau
Herbert Woodward Martin is a prize-winning poet and performer, an actor and playwright, a singer and opera librettist, a professor, and a scholar. Born in Alabama in 1933 and educated…
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Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry chronicles the writing and performing career of Herbert W. Martin, focusing on the way his life has informed his art…
Herbert Woodward Martin
Herbert Woodward Martin’s many poetic voices range from quiet lyrics to angry protest poems, from counterpoint structures to prize-winning historical narratives. This work is a combination of traditional poetic forms…
A new poetry collection with a long shelf life, something that will be whispered about - gossiped about - by creative readers and writers for years to come. Herbert Woodward…
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Establishes author’s reputation as a dramatist who mastered standard English conventions and used dialect in musical comedy for ironic effects.
Presents four Dunbar novels under one cover for the first time, allowing readers to assess why he was such a seminal influence on the twentieth century African American writers who…
More than seventy-five works in six genres. Featured are the previously unpublished play Herrick and two one-act plays, largely ignored for a century, that demonstrate Dunbar’s subversion of the minstrel…
