Williamsburg Regional Library

Minor notes, foreword by Tracy K. Smith ; edited with an introduction by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy

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Includes bibliographical references

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poetry

Minor notes

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foreword by Tracy K. Smith ; edited with an introduction by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy

Penguin classics

"A new Penguin Classics series that recovers and rediscovers the work of African American poets from the 19th and 20th centuries, curated by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy As scholars of African American literature and cultural history, Bennett and McCarthy repeatedly find themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they come across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals, whose work has been neglected and, in some cases, entirely ignored, even by those academic circles devoted to the study of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that addresses this problem by recovering archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. By pairing neglected collections of poetry with prefatory commentary provided by contemporary poets, Minor Notes bridges scholarly interest with the growing audience outside the university that reads, writes, and circulates Black poetry. Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton (1798-1883), once popularly known as the "black bard of North Carolina." Visions of the Dusk (1915) is an American prose poem known for its formal innovation by Fenton Johnson, a poet, essayist, editor, and educator from Chicago. Georgia Douglas Johnson was the most widely read black woman poet in the US during the first three decades of the 20th century. Bronze: A Book of Verse (1922) was introduced with a foreword by W.E.B. Du Bois. Bennett and McCarthy will provide an introduction"--, Provided by publisher

George Moses Horton -- Fenton Johnson -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- David Wadsworth Cannon Jr. -- Anne Spencer -- Angelina Weld Grimké

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