[PDF.98yb] This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance

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 | #2640581 in Books |  University of Massachusetts Press |  2006-09-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .41 x5.24 x9.04l,.52 | File type: PDF | 160 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A must read for anyone who loves poetry...|By Susan Haymore|Verner Mitchell's book is long overdue. Helene Johnson was a brilliant, up and coming poet of the Harlem Renaissance when she left the poetry circuit to make a living. Langston Hughes, among others, praised her poetry. Mitchell's book gives us previously unpublished poetry as well as further insight into her life. I hi|From Publishers Weekly|At age of 18, Johnson (1906-1995) won Opportunity magazine's first prize for poetry for 1925Aher cousin Dorothy West, one year younger, shared the prize for fiction with Zora Neale Hurston. The two moved to New York the following year, and

This volume brings together all of the known poetry and a selection of correspondence by an enormously talented but underappreciated poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and friend of Zora Neale Hurston, Helene Johnson (1905–1995) first gained literary prominence when James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost selected three of her poems for prizes in a 1926 competition. During the late 1920s and early 1930s her poetry appeared in various smal...

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