Black Moods: Collected Poems
University of Illinois Press, 2001
Cloth: 978-0-252-02738-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-07468-4 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05552-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3507.A727A17 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.52
Cloth: 978-0-252-02738-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-07468-4 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05552-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3507.A727A17 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.52
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis’s extant published poems as well as his previously unpublished work.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.
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