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Minor Notes, Volume 1
[Paperback - 2023]
tracy k. smith
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Additional Category: Literary Collections - Literary Criticism
Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780143137269 | Pages: 208
Shipping Weight: .159 | Dimensions: 5.06 x .56 x 7.7 inches

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The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith

A Penguin Classic

Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Minor Notes clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous. The poets featured in Volume 1 are George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld Grimké.

About the Author

Tracy K. Smith is the author ofWade in the Water;Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize;Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award; andThe Body’s Question, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is also the editor of an anthology,American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, and the author of a memoir,Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to 2019, Smith served as Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.

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