Time's Unfading Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time's Unfading Garden write by J. Lee Greene. This book was released on 1977-01-01. Time's Unfading Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of American Negro Poetry write by James Weldon Johnson. This book was released on 2009-01-01. The Book of American Negro Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work of James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) inspired and encouraged the artists of the Harlem Renaissance,a movement in which he himself was an important figure. Johnson was active in almost every aspect of American civil life and became one of the first African-American professors at New York University. He is best remembered for his writing, which questions, celebrates and commemorates his experience as an African-American.
Shadowed Dreams
Shadowed Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadowed Dreams write by Maureen Honey. This book was released on 2006-08-30. Shadowed Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first edition of Shadowed Dreams was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to light the contributions of women poets to the Harlem Renaissance. This revised and expanded version contains twice the number of poems found in the original, many of them never before reprinted, and adds eighteen new voices to the collection to once again strike new ground in African American literary history. Also new to this edition are nine period illustrations and updated biographical introductions for each poet. Shadowed Dreams features new poems by Gwendolyn Bennett, Anita Scott Coleman, Mae Cowdery, Blanche Taylor Dickinson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Gladys Casely Hayford (a k a Aquah Laluah), Virginia Houston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, Effie Lee Newsome, Esther Popel, and Anne Spencer, as well as writings from newly discovered poets Carrie Williams Clifford, Edythe Mae Gordon, Alvira Hazzard, Gertrude Parthenia McBrown, Beatrice Murphy, Lucia Mae Pitts, Grace Vera Postles, Ida Rowland, and Lucy Mae Turner, among others. Covering the years 1918 through 1939 and ranging across the period's major and minor journals, as well as its anthologies and collections, Shadowed Dreams provides a treasure trove of poetry from which to mine deeply buried jewels of black female visions in the early twentieth century.
Lessons Learned from a Poet's Garden
Lessons Learned from a Poet's Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons Learned from a Poet's Garden write by Jane Baber White. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Lessons Learned from a Poet's Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes examples of Anne Spencer's poetry.
Alone at Sea
Alone at Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alone at Sea write by Ann Spencer. This book was released on 1999. Alone at Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1895, Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum embarked on a three-year 46,000-mile solo circumnavigation of the globe, aboard a refitted oyster sloop. Sailing through pirate-infested waters, confronting the sea at its most cruel, surviving beachings and wrestling with the demons of solitude, Joshua Slocum achieved a voyage that will forever rank among the epic feats of seamanship.
