Description: Further DetailsTitle: Complete PoemsCondition: NewISBN-10: 0252075900EAN: 9780252075902ISBN: 9780252075902Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/18/2008Description: Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked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. 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmGenre: Poetry & DramaBook Series: American Poetry Recovery SeriesItem Weight: 739gAuthor: Claude McKayContributor: William J. Maxwell (Edited by), William J. Maxwell (Introduction by)Release Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Complete Poems
Title: Complete Poems
ISBN-10: 0252075900
EAN: 9780252075902
ISBN: 9780252075902
Release Date: 06/18/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: American Poetry Recovery Series
Contributor: William J. Maxwell (Introduction by)
Book Title: Complete Poems
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Topic: American / African American, General
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 1.4 in
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 23 Oz
Author: Claude Mckay
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: American Poetry Recovery Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
