Further Resources

Contemporary poems and volumes of poems that strongly engage 19th-century materials and 19th-century poetry include:

• Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow (Red Hen Press, 2010).
• Vievee Francis, Blue Tail Fly (Wayne State, 2006).
• Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Darktown Follies (Tupelo Press, 2013).
• Douglas Kearney, “Swimchant for Nigger Merfolk: An Aquaboogie Set in Lapis” in The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009).
• Maurice Manning, A Companion for Owls:  Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c (Harcourt, 2004).
• Thylias Moss, Slave Moth:  A Narrative in Verse (Persea, 2004).
• M. NorbeSe Philip, Zong! (Wesleyan, 2008).
• Evie Shockley, the new black (Wesleyan, 2011)
• Brian Teare, Companion Grasses (Omnidawn, 2013).
• Natasha Tretheway, Native Guard: Poems (Mariner, 2007).
• Frank X. Walker, Buffalo Dance:  The Journey of York (Kentucky, 2010).
• Kevin Young, Ardency:  A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Knopf, 2011)