Description
This volume brings together much of the poetry and a selection of correspondence by an enormously talented but underappreciated poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and friend of Zora Neale Hurston, Helene Johnson (1905-1995) first gained literary prominence when James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost selected three of her poems for prizes in a 1926 competition. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, her poetry appeared in various small magazines. In 1933, she married, and two years later her last published poem appeared in ""Challenge"", the journal West had founded to revive the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance.
About the Author
VERNER D. MITCHELL is associate professor of English at the University of Memphis and coeditor of Dorothy West's Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
Book Information
ISBN 9781558495722
Author Helene Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
Weight(grams) 236g
About the Author
VERNER D. MITCHELL is associate professor of English at the University of Memphis and coeditor of Dorothy West's Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
Book Information
ISBN 9781558495722
Author Helene Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
Weight(grams) 236g
