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Shadowed dreams : women's poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
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In her foreword scholar-critic Nellie McKay states that the poets considered in this volume provide useful information about women's lives and vital understanding of a major area of Afro-American c...
In her foreword scholar-critic Nellie McKay states that the poets considered in this volume provide useful information about women's lives and vital understanding of a major area of Afro-American cultural history. Honey's introduction examines the use of traditional poetic forms in the historical context of the Harlem Renaissance and explains the poet's use of the protective mask. The 148 poems by 34 black women are organized around four major themes: protest, heritage, love and passion, and nature. The explanatory text, thoroughly footnoted, prepares the reader for the poems, and highlights the works of Anne Spencer, Helene Johnson and Mae Cowdery, to whom the book is dedicated. ISBN 0-8135-1419-3: $35.00.
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- Creator
- edited and with an introduction by Maureen Honey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©1989
- Physical Details
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- xx, 238 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813514193, 9780813514192, 0813514207, 9780813514208
- OCLC
- ocm18959602
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238).
- White things -- The Sévignés -- Letter to my sister -- Innocence -- Before the Feast at Shushan -- [Terence MacSwiney] -- Lady, lady / Anne Spencer -- Prejudice -- Common dust -- Calling dreams -- Wishes -- The suppliant -- Armageddon -- Your world -- Motherhood -- Smothered fires -- The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- The bird in the cage -- The baker's boy -- Exodus / Effie Lee Newsome -- Northboun' / Lucy Ariel Williams -- "Carry me back to Old Virginny" / Elma Ehrlich Levinger -- Croweded out / Rosalie M. Jonas -- Little grey dreams / Angelina Weld Grimke -- I sit and sew -- The proletariat speaks / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- Four walls -- A dark actress, somewhere / Blanche Taylor Dickinson -- The palm wine seller / Gladys Mae Casely Hayford -- The negro laughs back -- Secret / Mary Jenness -- Epitome / Ruth G. Dixon -- Nordic -- Chalk dust / Lillian Byrnes -- Class room / Virginia A. Houston -- A brown aesthete speaks -- A prayer / Mae V. Cowdery -- The lynching / Dorothea Mathews -- The road / Helene Johnson -- Bottled -- Sonnet to a negro in Harlem -- Poem -- Magalu -- My race / Heritage -- To usward -- Song -- To a dark girl / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- The shining parlor -- Black faces -- Negro laughter -- Black baby / Anita Scott Coleman -- Baby Cobina / Lullaby / Aqua Laluah -- Rime for the Christmas baby (at 48 Webter Place, Orange) -- Grapes: still-life / The bronze legacy (to a brown boy) -- Morning light (the dew-drier) / Heritage / Beauty / Octavia Beatrice Wynbush -- The true American / Oriflamme / Jessie Fauset -- To keep the memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke, 1915 / An old slave woman / Joyce Sims Carrington -- Longings -- Exultation -- Insatiate -- Farewell -- Having had you -- Some hands are lovlie -- Poem ... for a lover -- If I must know -- Lines to a sophisticate -- Dusk / To a dark dancer -- Night's protege / Marjorie Marshall -- Joy -- Interim -- The mask / Clarissa Scott Delany -- To Clarissa Scott Delany -- A Mona Lisa -- I weep -- El Beso -- The want of you / Rainy season love song -- The serving girl / Gladys May Casely Hayford -- To E.J.J. -- Last night / Ethel M. Caution -- Stars in Alabama -- Fragment -- Touche / Fantasy -- Secret -- Hatred / Afterglow -- To a young wife -- I want to die while you love me / A kiss requested / Eda Lou Walton -- All things insensible -- Hunger / Kathleen Tankersley Young -- Ectasy / Dark dreaming / Dorothy Kruger -- Lines to a nasturtium (a lover muses) -- At the carnival / Summer matures -- Fulfillment / At the spring dawn -- Dawn -- A winter twilight -- Dusk -- Grass fingers -- The black finger -- Tenebris / Snow in October / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- October / Isabel Neill -- Autumn -- Desire -- Nostalgia / December portrait / Want -- Interlude -- The wind blows -- Four poems / Portraiture / Locust trees / Margaret L. Thomas -- Solace / Substitution -- [God never planted a garden] -- Creed / [Night is like an avalanche] -- [Skylines] / Bessie Mayle -- Mattinate -- Memory -- Wild roses -- Sassafras tea / After reading Bryant's line to a waterfowl / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- The river / Theft -- Night comes walking / Esther Popel -- Escape / What do I care for morning -- Invocation -- Trees at night / To an icicle / Nocturne -- Quatrain 2 -- Street lamps in early spring / Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Subjects
- American poetry -- African American authors.
- American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York.
- American poetry -- Women authors.
- American poetry -- 20th century.
- African American women -- Poetry.
- Harlem Renaissance.
- Women -- Poetry.
- American poetry -- African American authors -- Literary collections.
- American poetry -- 20th century -- Literary collections.
- American poetry -- Literary collections.
- American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Literary collections.
- Women -- United States -- Poetry.
- American literature -- Women authors.