The Black PoetsBy: Dudley Randall "The claim of The Black Poets to being an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked