Black Moods: Collected Poems (American Poetry Recovery Series)

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Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished work. Cogently framed by John Edgar Tidwell's insightful introduction, this volume recovers the rich variety of Davis's poetic expression, much of it informed by his political convictions and by his multifaceted work as a journalist. His early work helped promote Chicago as a site of the New Negro Renaissance in the 1930s; late in his career the Black Arts Movement welcomed him ...
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Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished work. Cogently framed by John Edgar Tidwell's insightful introduction, this volume recovers the rich variety of Davis's poetic expression, much of it informed by his political convictions and by his multifaceted work as a journalist. His early work helped promote Chicago as a site of the New Negro Renaissance in the 1930s; late in his career the Black Arts Movement welcomed him as "the long lost father of modern Black poetry." Between these two signposts, Davis engaged in a tireless struggle for social, intellectual, political, and aesthetic freedom, lending his considerable energies and intelligence to the fight against racial segregation, anti-Semitism, labor exploitation, and other injustices.

Tidwell 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. From sharp-edged sketches of Southside Chicago's urban landscape to the complicated bright prismatic world that lay beneath Hawaii's placid surface of beach-front hotels, bikinis, and beach bums, Davis's muscular poems blend social, cultural, and political concerns -- always shaped by his promise to "try to be as direct as good blues." His jazz poetry and love poems offer a lyrical counterpoint to his realistic and satirical verse focusing on urban life, race pride, and fierce social consciousness. A varied and valuable collection, Black Moods represents the recovery of a powerful and distinctive voice and a marvelous enrichment of African American poetry.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780252027383
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/2002
  • Series: American Poetry Recovery Series
  • Pages: 275
  • Product dimensions: 6.18 (w) x 9.54 (h) x 1.03 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction: Weaving Jagged Words into Song
Note on the Text
Chicago's Congo 5
Only My Words 7
What Do You Want America? 8
I Sing No New Songs 11
Lynched 12
What's a New Full Moon? 17
Rain 17
Gary, Indiana 18
Jazz Band 20
Mojo Mike's Beer Garden 22
Cabaret 23
Returned 25
The Slave 26
Five Portraits of Chicago at Night 26
Hands of a Brown Woman 28
Creation 30
Which One? 31
Lullaby 32
death 33
Georgia's Atlanta 35
Portrait of an Old Woman 37
South State Street Profile 38
Finding 39
Christians? 39
Query 39
Dreams 40
Kansas Winter 40
Failure 40
Race 41
April Night 41
Tryst 42
To You 43
Love Notes at Night 44
The Story Ends 45
Realization 48
Rev. Joseph Williams 49
Goldie Blackwell 49
Acey White 50
Robert Whitemore 50
Arthur Ridgewood, M.D. 50
George Brown 51
Giles Johnson, Ph.D. 51
Roosevelt Smith 52
Forewarning 57
I Am the American Negro 57
Dancing Gal 64
Flowers of Darkness 65
They All Had Grand Ideas 66
Christ Is a Dixie Nigger 67
Washington Park, Chicago 68
Note Left by a Suicide 74
To One Who Would Leave Me 75
'Mancipation Day 77
Notes on a Summer Night 78
Awakening 80
Come to Me 81
Modern Man - the Superman 83
Two Women 86
For Any Unborn Negro 87
"Onward Christian Soldiers!" 87
Midsummer Morn 87
Moses Mitchell 88
Sam Jackson 88
Jonathan Wood 89
Cleo and Sarah Greeley 89
Benjamin Blakey 91
Nicodemus Perry 91
Mrs. Clifton Townsend 92
Editor Ralph Williamson 93
Frank Marshall Davis: Writer 94
47th Street 103
Snapshots of the Cotton South 115
Pattern for Conquest 121
Black Weariness 122
Egotistic Runt 123
Chicago Skyscrapers 125
Tenement Room 127
Four Glimpses of Night 128
To Those Who Sing America 129
Peace Quiz for America 131
For All Common People 138
War Zone 140
Nothing Can Stop the People 141
I Bring Proven Gifts 145
Lines to a Summer Love 146
To One Forever Gone 147
To Lorelei 151
Life Is a Woman 152
Alone 153
You Are All 153
Coincidence 156
Man of Science 157
Adam Smothers 158
Mental Man 159
Spinster: Old 159
I Have Talked with Death 160
Self Portrait 163
Peace Is a Fragile Cup 164
To the Red Army 169
I Have Faith 171
Creed for Hedonists 171
Ours Is a Modern God 172
Little and Big 174
Public Servant 175
Give Us Our Freedom Now! 175
Finality 178
To Those Seeking Fame 180
Black American 181
Three Average Americans 183
[Ike Mosby] 185
Miss Samantha Wilson 185
To a Young Man 186
Billie Holiday 188
Duke Ellington 189
Charlie Parker 190
Louis Armstrong 192
Lady Day 193
Ella 194
"Swing It Brother Swing" 194
This Is Paradise 195
Moonlight at Kahana Bay 208
Tale of Two Dogs 209
Pacific Invasion 210
Horizontal Cameos: 37 Portraits 211
To Helen 230
[In What Strange Place] 231
To My Own 232
She 235
Alpha-Omega 236
The Search Ends 237
Alone 239
App War Quiz for America 241
Notes to the Poems 249
Index of Titles 273
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