{"product_id":"9780871406798","title":"Collected Poems (Centenary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exquisite body of work celebrating the centennial of one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including \u003cem\u003eA Ballad of Remembrance\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords in the Mourning Time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Night-Blooming Cereus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAngle of Ascent\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Also included is an introduction by American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, as well as an afterword by Arnold Rampersad that provides a critical and historical context. In Hayden’s work the actualities of history and culture became the launching places for flights of imagination and intelligence. His voice—characterized by musical diction and an exquisite feeling for the formality of pattern—is a seminal one in American life and literature.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027539280112,"sku":"9780871406798","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871406798_p0.jpg?v=1769912042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871406798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}