Dimensions
127 x 203 x 13mm
A comprehensive volume of writings by a seminal figure in African American literature and culture. This year marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing", James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original presents all the poems from Johnson's published works - Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), Gods Trombon es (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of th e Resurrection Day (1935) - along with a number of previously unpublished poems.
