Complete Poems
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked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...
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The complete works of previously unpublished and published poetry of a pioneer of modern black writing.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Claude McKay - Lyric Poetry in the Age of CataclysmJamaican Periodical Poetry, 1911-121Songs of Jamaica (1912)19Constab Ballads (1912)86Early English and American Poetry, 1916-22130Harlem Shadows (1922)152"The Clinic," circa 1923197"The Years Between," 1925-34208"Cities," circa 1934223"The Cycle," circa 1943241Final Catholic Poetry, 1945-47270Notes to the Poems281Works Cited in Notes to the Poems393Index of First Lines395Index of Titles401
