A01=Frank Marshall Davis
Author_Frank Marshall Davis
Black
Blues
Category=DCF
discrimination
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Hawaii
music
political
politics
Southside Chicago
urban landscape
voice
Product details
- ISBN 9780252074684
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 29 May 2007
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis’s extant published poems as well as his previously unpublished work.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.
Frank Marshall Davis (1905–87) was an editor, reporter, columnist, and critic. His poetry collections include Black Man's Verse (1935), I Am the American Negro (1937), and 47th Street: Poems (1948). John Edgar Tidwell is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas.
