Harlem Shadows
eBook - ePub

Harlem Shadows

Poems

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Harlem Shadows

Poems

About this book

A collection of poetry from the award-winning, Jamaican-American author of Home to Harlem.
In Harlem Shadows, poet and writer Claude McKay touches on a variety of themes as he celebrates his Jamaican heritage and sheds light on the Black American experience. While the title poem follows sex workers on the streets of Harlem in New York City, the sight of fruit in a window in "The Tropics of New York" reminds the author of his old life in Jamaica. "If We Must Die" was written in response to the Red Summer of 1919, when Black Americans around the country were attacked by white supremacists. And in "After the Winter," McKay offers a feeling of hope.
Born in Jamaica in 1889, McKay first visited the United States in 1912. He traveled the world and eventually became an American citizen in 1940. His work influenced the likes of James Baldwin and Richard Wright.
"One of the great forces in bringing about . . . the Negro literary Renaissance." —James Weldon Johnson, author of The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man
"This is [McKay's] first book of verse to be published in the United States, but it will give him the high place among American poets to which he is rightfully entitled." —Walter F. White, author of Flight

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Information

Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781504067836
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Author’s Word
  5. The Easter Flower
  6. To One Coming North
  7. America
  8. Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table
  9. The Tropics in New York
  10. Flame-Heart
  11. Home Thoughts
  12. On Broadway
  13. The Barrier
  14. Adolescence
  15. Homing Swallows
  16. The City’s Love
  17. North and South
  18. Wild May
  19. The Plateau
  20. After the Winter
  21. The Wild Goat
  22. Harlem Shadows
  23. The White City
  24. The Spanish Needle
  25. My Mother
  26. In Bondage
  27. December, 1919
  28. Heritage
  29. When I Have Passed Away
  30. Enslaved
  31. I Shall Return
  32. Morning Joy
  33. Africa
  34. On a Primitive Canoe
  35. Winter in the Country
  36. To Winter
  37. Spring in New Hampshire
  38. On the Road
  39. The Harlem Dancer
  40. Dawn in New York
  41. The Tired Worker
  42. Outcast
  43. I Know My Soul
  44. Birds of Prey
  45. The Castaways
  46. Exhortation: Summer, 1919
  47. The Lynching
  48. Baptism
  49. If We Must Die
  50. Subway Wind
  51. The Night Fire
  52. Poetry
  53. To a Poet
  54. A Prayer
  55. When Dawn Comes to the City
  56. O Word I Love to Sing
  57. Absence
  58. Summer Morn in New Hampshire
  59. Rest in Peace
  60. A Red Flower
  61. Courage
  62. To O.E.A.
  63. Romance
  64. Flower of Love
  65. The Snow Fairy
  66. La Paloma in London
  67. A Memory of June
  68. Flirtation
  69. Tormented
  70. Polarity
  71. One Year After
  72. French Leave
  73. Jasmines
  74. Commemoration
  75. Memorial
  76. Thirst
  77. Futility
  78. Through Agony
  79. Copyright