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Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Complete Poems - Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Author: James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson
This year marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works--Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relat...  more » (1935)--along with a number of previously unpublished poems.

Sondra Kathryn Wilson, the foremost authority on Johnson and his work, provides an introduction that sheds light on Johnson's many achievements and his pioneering contributions to recording and celebrating the African American experience.
ISBN-13: 9781439503584
ISBN-10: 1439503583
Publication Date: 6/26/2008
Pages: 202
Edition: Reprint
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