Complete Poems
Published on 23. January 2004
456 pages
978-0-252-09497-2 (ISBN)
Description
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked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.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- contents
- acknowledgments
- introduction: claude mckay-lyric poetry in the age of cataclysm
- Jamaican periodical poetry, 1911-12
- constab ballads (1912)
- early english and american poetry,1916-22
- harlem shadows (1922)
- "the clinic," circa 1923
- "the years between," 1925-34
- "cities," circa 1934
- "the cycle," circa 1943
- final catholic poetry, 1945-47
- notes to the poems
- works cited in notes to the poems
- index of first lines
- index of titles
