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This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Walker, Margaret (Author), Graham, Maryemma (Contribution by), Finney, Nikky (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0820345970     ISBN-13: 9780820345970
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
OUR PRICE:   $24.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - African American
Dewey: 811.54
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942. Over the next fifty years she enriched American literature in endless ways through her writings and, in 1993, she received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This Is My Century is Walker's own defining summation of her career. Selected by the author herself, the one hundred poems include thirty-seven previously uncollected pieces and the entire contents of three hard-to-find volumes: the award-winning For My People (1942), Prophets for a New Day (1970), and October Journey (1975).

Contributor Bio(s): Finney, Nikky: - NIKKY FINNEY is a professor of creative writing at the University of Kentucky and the author of three collections of poetry: On Wings Made of Gauze; Rice, which won a PEN America Open Book Award; and The World Is Round. She is also the author of Heartwood, a collection of short stories.Walker, Margaret: - MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) wrote poetry, essays, the novel Jubilee, and a biography of Richard Wright. She created pioneering programs in the humanities and African American studies at Jackson State University, where she was a faculty member for almost three decades.Graham, Maryemma: - MARYEMMA GRAHAM is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of Kansas, where she directs the Project on the History of Black Writing. Among her books are two edited collections, On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 and "How I Wrote Jubilee" and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker.