Robert Hayden was a fellow of the American Academy of Poets, a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, and a professor of English at the University of Michigan. He received numerous awards for his poetry in his lifetime, among them to Hopwood Awards, the Grand Prize for Poetry at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, and the Russell Loines Award for distinguished poetic achievement from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Arnold Rampersad is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University.
- ISBN10 0871406519
- ISBN13 9780871406514
- Publish Date 17 February 1996 (first published 17 June 1985)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 12 March 1998
- Publish Country US
- Publisher WW Norton & Co
- Imprint Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English