By Broad Potomac's Shore, Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital
- Authors
- Kim Roberts
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Tags
- poe001000 poetry , anthologies (multiple authors)
- Size
- 0.46 MB
- Lang
- en
ppFollowing her successful iLiterary Guide to Washington, DC,/i which iLibrary Journal/i called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital," Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital from the city's founding in 1800 to 1930. Roberts expertly presents the work of 132 poets, including poems by celebrated DC writers such as Francis Scott Key, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Henry Adams, and James Weldon Johnson, as well as the work of lesser-known poetsespecially women, writers of color, and working-class writers. A significant number of the poems are by writers who were born enslaved, such as Fanny Jackson Coppin, T. Thomas Fortune, and John Sella Martin./p pThe book is arranged thematically, representing the poetic work happening in our...