Bibliograph

This waiting for love, Helene Johnson, poet of the Harlem Renaissance, edited and with an introduction by Verner D. Mitchell ; foreword by Cheryl A. Wall ; afterword by Abigail McGrath

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This waiting for love, Helene Johnson, poet of the Harlem Renaissance, edited and with an introduction by Verner D. Mitchell ; foreword by Cheryl A. Wall ; afterword by Abigail McGrath

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This waiting for love

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Verner D. Mitchell ; foreword by Cheryl A. Wall ; afterword by Abigail McGrath

Sub title

Helene Johnson, poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Summary

"This volume brings together much 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 (1906-1995) 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 small magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Quill, Palms, Opportunity, and Harlem. In 1933 Johnson married, and two years later her last published poem, "Let Me Sing My Song," appeared in Challenge, the journal West had founded in an attempt to revive the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance."--Jacket

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