"A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose poetry was at the heart of the American Revolution"--

A biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761 who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet in America.

The remarkable story of the young slave Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poet.

Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, "To My Dear and Loving Husband," among others, and through John Berryman's "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet." With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the...

Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.

Provides a close-up look at this young African woman who became a celebrated poet of her time, writing elegies, or tributes to people she admired, as well as poems that used the themes of America's struggle for independence.

The story of a young girl, bought as a slave by a Boston family, who learned to write and later became a poet.

" A juvenile biography of Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poet"--Provided by publisher.

A brief biography of the slave who learned to read and write, became the second woman in America to have a book published, and won international fame for her poetry.