With poems reprinted in more than one hundred anthologies, including Stephen Henderson's Understanding the New Black Poetry (1973) and Woodie King, Jr.'s The Forerunners: Black Poets in America (1981), Samuel W. Allen today holds a distinguished place among Afro-American poets. Living in Europe, primarily in France and Germany after World War II, he became steeped in the literature of the negritude movement and inspired to write a poetry grounded in the fusion of African and Afro-American culture. He has played a significant role in African and Afro-American criticism as a scholar, reviewer, translator, editor, and lecturer. He has lectured on Afro-American and African literature and extensively on Frantz Fanon; he has participated in major national and international conferences on black affairs both literary and political; he has been a professor and writer-in-residence at several universities; and he has read his poetry at institutions throughout the United States and abroad...