Minor Notes, Volume 1
Author: Horton, George Moses
ISBN: 9780143137269
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 16 May 2023
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithPlt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;A Penguin ClassicPlt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithPlt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;A Penguin ClassicPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Plt;iPgt;Minor Notes Plt;/iPgt;is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Plt;iPgt;Minor NotesPlt;/iPgt; clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps Plt;iPgt;bestPlt;/iPgt; understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous. The poets featured in Volume 1 are George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld GrimkP#233;.
ISBN: 9780143137269
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 16 May 2023
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithPlt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;A Penguin ClassicPlt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. SmithPlt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;A Penguin ClassicPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Plt;iPgt;Minor Notes Plt;/iPgt;is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Plt;iPgt;Minor NotesPlt;/iPgt; clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps Plt;iPgt;bestPlt;/iPgt; understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous. The poets featured in Volume 1 are George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld GrimkP#233;.
