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Born in 1913 / Died in 1980 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POEMS

  • Heart-Shape in the Dust, Falcon Press (Detroit), 1940.
  • (With Myron O'Higgins) The Lion and the Archer, Hemphill Press (Nashville), 1948.
  • Figure of Time: Poems, Hemphill Press, 1955.
  • A Ballad of Remembrance, Paul Breman (London), 1962.
  • Selected Poems, October House, 1966.
  • Words in the Mourning Time, October House, 1970.
  • The Night-Blooming Cereus, Paul Breman, 1972.
  • Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems, Liveright, 1975.
  • American Journal, limited edition, Effendi Press, 1978, enlarged edition, Liveright, 1982.
  • Robert Hayden: Collected Poems, edited by Frederick Glaysher, Liveright, 1985, with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad, Liveright, 1996.
OTHER
  • (Editor and author of introduction) Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro Poets (juvenile), Harcourt, 1967.
  • (With others) Today's Poets (recording), Folkways, 1967.
  • (Author of preface) Alain LeRoy Locke, editor, The New Negro, Atheneum, 1968.
  • (Editor with David J. Burrows and Frederick R. Lapides) Afro-American Literature: An Introduction, Harcourt, 1971.
  • (Editor with James Edwin Miller and Robert O'Neal) The United States in Literature, Scott, Foresman, 1973, abridged edition published as The American Literary Tradition, 1607-1899, 1973.
  • (Contributor) The Legend of John Brown, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1978.
  • Collected Prose, edited by Glaysher, University of Michigan Press, 1984.
Contributor to periodicals, including Atlantic, Negro Digest, and Midwest Journal. Drama and music critic, Michigan Chronicle, late 1930s.