This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

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).

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Walker, Margaret
Published: 10/15/2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820345970
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d