Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-"1919) now ranks as the most important American woman poet of the nineteenth century after Emily Dickinson. Published heavily in all the period's most prestigious journals, Piatt was widely celebrated by her peers as a gifted stylist in the genteel tradition.
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-"1919) now ranks as the most important American woman poet of the nineteenth century after Emily Dickinson. Published h...
Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished work.
Cogently framed by John Edgar Tidwell's insightful introduction, this volume recovers the rich variety of Davis's poetic expression, much of it informed by his political convictions and by his multifaceted work as a journalist. His early work helped promote Chicago as a site of the New Negro Renaissance in the 1930s; late in his career the Black Arts Movement welcomed him as "the long lost father of modern Black poetry." Between these...
Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished wor...
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. McKay's first poems were composed in rural Jamaican creole and launched his lifelong commitment to representing everyday black culture from the bottom up. Migrating to New York, he reinvigorated the English sonnet and helped spark the Harlem Renaissance with poems such as "If We Must Die."...
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectua...
