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Claude McKay - Complete Poems - 9780252028823 - V9780252028823
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Complete Poems

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Description for Complete Poems Hardback. The complete works of previously unpublished and published poetry of a pioneer of modern black writing Editor(s): Maxwell, William. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 43. Weight in Grams: 874.

Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252028823
SKU
V9780252028823
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About Claude McKay
A pioneer of black modernism, Claude McKay's varied and influential books include the poetry collections Harlem Shadows and Songs of Jamaica, and the novels Banjo, Home to Harlem, and Banana Bottom. William J. Maxwell is an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of the award-winning New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing ... Read more

Reviews for Complete Poems
"A volume that no student of the Harlem Renaissance, the leftist interwar period, dissident sexuality studies, the Catholic worker movement, or negritude, diaspora, and Caribbean language literature can live without. . . . Maxwell's skillful salvaging of remote primary material, thorough scholarship, and original criticism substantially reconfigure how we understand the diaspora cruising author, rendering intelligible much that has mystified ... Read more

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