Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

by Norman R. Shapiro

Book Overview

American literature is not only more than Hawthorne and Poe; it is more than English.

Long before the Harlem Renaissance, African American poets and their white colleagues were writing in Louisiana, in French, with a quality inspired and polished by a sense of poetic community. These were the Creole poets of the 1800s, creators of a body of work that is at last available in an English translation by renowned translator Norman R. Shapiro.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0988962764
• ISBN13: 9780988962767
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Second Line Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"