An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family life, love, hate, work, and social life. The reader obtains a strong sense of black life through his colorful and emotional poetry.
. - Summary by Denise Ray
IntroductionAuthor's WordThe Easter FlowerTo One Coming NorthAmericaAlfonso, Dressing to Wait at TableThe Tropics in New YorkFlame HeartHome ThoughtsOn BroadwayThe BarrierAdolescenceHoming SwallowsThe City's LoveNorth and SouthWild MayThe PlateauAfter the WinterThe Wild GoatHarlem ShadowsThe White CityThe Spanish NeedleMy MotherIn BondageDecember 1919HeritageWhen I Have Passed AwayEnslavedI Shall ReturnMorning JoyAfricaOn a Primitive CanoeWinter in the CountryTo WinterSpring in New HampshireOn the RoadThe Harlem DancerDawn in New YorkThe Tired WorkerOutcastI know My SoulBirds of PreyThe CastawaysExhortation: Summer, 1919The LynchingBaptismIf We Must DieSubway WindThe Night FirePoetryTo A PoetA PrayerWhen Dawn Comes to the CityO Word I Love to SingAbsenceSummer Morn in New HampshireRest in PeaceA Red FlowerCourageTo O.E.A.RomanceFlower of LoveThe Snow FairyLa Paloma in LondonA Memory of JuneFlirtationTormentedPolarityOne Year AfterFrench LeaveJasminesCommemorationMemorialThirstFutilityThrough Agony
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