3000 Years of Black Poetry Author:Alan Lomax and Raoul Abdul Here's an anthology which opens doors to a virtual Biblical treasury of human intensities, love, tenderness and human pride. Black poets from Akhenaton in Egypt (14th century BC) to Gwendolyn Brooks, LeRoi Jones, and the new strong voices of contemporary black America are represented in their rich variety; yet personalities shed their uniqueness... more » to contribute to the vision of the continuous stream of more than 3,000 years of "black poetry" which the editors, Alan Lomax and Raoul Abdul, have culled and presented as a serious labor of love.« less