Description
| Product ID: | 9780252075902 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | American Poetry Recovery Series |
| Title: | Complete Poems |
| Authors: | Author: Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott |
| Page Count: | 456 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The complete works of previously unpublished and published poetry of a pioneer of modern black writing Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked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." After coming under scrutiny for his communism, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa for twelve years and returned to Harlem in 1934, having denounced Stalin''s Soviet Union. By then, McKay''s pristine "violent sonnets" were giving way to confessional lyrics informed by his newfound Catholicism. McKay''s verse eludes easy definition, yet this complete anthology, vividly introduced and carefully annotated by William J. Maxwell, acquaints readers with the full transnational evolution of a major voice in twentieth-century poetry. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-06-18 |
