Harlem Shadows - 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 Harlem Shadows write by Claude McKay. This book was released on 2021-08-31. Harlem Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Harlem Shadows
Harlem Shadows - 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 Harlem Shadows write by Claude McKay. This book was released on 2021-05-28. Harlem Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harlem Shadows (1922) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Shadows earned praise from legendary poet and political activist Max Eastman for its depictions of urban life and the technical mastery of its author. As a committed leftist, McKay—who grew up in Jamaica—captures the life of Harlem from a realist’s point of view, lamenting the poverty of its African American community while celebrating their resilience and cultural achievement. In “The White City,” McKay observes New York, its “poles and spires and towers vapor-kissed” and “fortressed port through which the great ships pass.” Filled him with a hatred of the inhuman scene of industry and power, forced to “muse [his] life-long hate,” he observes the transformative quality of focused anger: “My being would be a skeleton, a shell, / If this dark Passion that fills my every mood, / And makes my heaven in the white world’s hell, / Did not forever feed me vital blood.” Rather than fall into despair, he channels his hatred into a revolutionary spirit, allowing him to stand tall within “the mighty city.” In “The Tropics in New York,” he walks past a window filled with “Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, / Cocoa in pods and alligator pears,” a feast of fresh tropical fruit that brings him back, however briefly, to his island home of Jamaica. Recording his nostalgic response, McKay captures his personal experience as an immigrant in America: “My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze; / A wave of longing through my body swept, / And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, / I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.” With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows is a classic of Jamaican literature reimagined for modern readers.
Harlem Shadows
Harlem Shadows - 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 Harlem Shadows write by Claude McKay. This book was released on 1922. Harlem Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems
Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems - 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 Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems write by Claude McKay. This book was released on 1920. Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Harlem Shadows
Harlem Shadows - 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 Harlem Shadows write by Claude McKay. This book was released on 1922. Harlem Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
