Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred published here for the first time, this landmark collection showcases the range and dynamism of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet whose life and poetry were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. His first poems, composed in rural Jamaican dialect, won him fame as the "Jamaican Bobby Burns" and launched his lifelong commitment to representing everyday black culture from…
Author: Claude McKay; William J. Maxwell (ed.) · Original publisher: University of Illinois Press (2004)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/completepoems00mcka (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; the 2004 University of Illinois Press edition (ed. William J. Maxwell); IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: completepoems00mcka; no hosting rights).
