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After a Thousand Tears: Poems

After a Thousand Tears: Poems

Johnson, Georgia Douglas
II, Jimmy Worthy, II
II, Jimmy Worthy, II

Hardcover

Series: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0820362832
ISBN13: 9780820362830
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.35
Language: English

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) was the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Born as Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp in 1877 in Atlanta, Georgia, Johnson devoted much of her artistic imagination to indexing African American women's interior life and advancing the means through which to achieve interracial cooperation. After a Thousand Tears represents the only extant poetry collection that Johnson authored between 1928 and 1962, and it illustrates her more nuanced and transgressive prescription for gender, racial, and national advancement.

Although scholars have critically examined Johnson's four previously published collections of poetry (The Heart of a Woman [1918], Bronze [1922], An Autumn Love Cycle [1928], and Share My World [1962]), they have never engaged After a Thousand Tears. Jimmy Worthy II located the unpublished work while conducting archival research at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Worthy discovered that while Johnson intended to publish Tears with Padma Publications of Bombay in 1947, the project never came to fruition. Published now, for the first time, this volume features eighty-one poems that offer Johnson's intimate and forthright sensibility toward African American women's lived experiences during and following the Harlem Renaissance.

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