Author : Frank Marshall Davis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780252055522
Black Moods by Frank Marshall Davis Pdf
Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis’s extant published poems as well as his previously unpublished work. From sharp-edged sketches of Southside Chicago’s urban landscape to the prismatic world that lay beneath Hawaii’s placid surface, Davis’s muscular poems blend social, cultural, and political concerns--always shaped by his promise to “try to be as direct as good blues.” John Edgar Tidwell’s introduction examines both Davis’s poetry and his politics, presenting a subtle portrait of a complex writer devoted to exposing discriminatory practices and reaffirming the humanity of the common people.