Black Moods: Collected Poems
by Frank Marshall Davis
edited by John Edgar Tidwell
introduction by John Edgar Tidwell
University of Illinois Press, 2001
Cloth: 978-0-252-02738-3 | Paper: 978-0-252-07468-4 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05552-2 (standard)
Library of Congress Classification PS3507.A727A17 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.52
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Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis’s extant published poems as well as his previously unpublished work.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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