Selected Poems: Claude McKay

by Claude McKay

In his 1918 autobiographical essay, "A Negro Poet Writes," Claude McKay (1889-1948), reveals much about the wellspring of his poetry.

"I am a black man, born in Jamaica, B.W.I., and have been living in America for the last years. It was the first time I had ever come face to face with such manifest, implacable hate of my race, and my feelings were indescribable ... Looking about me with bigger and clearer eyes I saw that this cruelty in different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631827995
• ISBN13: 9781631827990
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Lushena Books
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"