soulscript: A Collection of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics) - Softcover

Assembled by the late, great, award-winning poet June Jordan, and first published in 1970, Soulscript is a poignant and panoramic collection of Black poetry by the most eloquent voices in the art. Selected for their literary excellence and by the dictates of Jordan’s heart as a woman, activist, and incomparable poet, these works tell the story of the Black experience “in tears, in rage, in hope, in sonnet, in blank/free verse, in overwhelming rhetorical scream.” Soulscript features poems by such luminaries as Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, and Ishmael Reed, as well as the fresh voices of that turbulent era’s younger writers, presenting a truly visionary compilation that has already become a modern classic, and that will appeal to fans of spoken word and literary poetry.