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Songs of the Soil
Fenton Johnson
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Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in
1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George
Moses Horton (1798-1883), once popularly known as the 'black bard
of North Carolina.' Visions of the Dusk (1915) is an American prose
poem known for its formal innovation by Fenton Johnson, a poet,
essayist, editor and educator from Chicago. Georgia Douglas Johnson
was the most widely read black woman poet in the US during the
first three decades of the 20th century. Bronze: A Book of Verse
(1922) was introduced with a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois.
Whether seeking more time for solitude or suffering what seems a
surfeit of it, readers will find the best of companions here.
Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explores
what it means to choose to be solitary and celebrates the notion,
common in his Roman Catholic childhood, that solitude is a
legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and
works of nearly a dozen iconic "solitaries" he considers his
kindred spirits, from Thoreau at Walden Pond and Emily Dickinson in
Amherst, to Bill Cunningham photographing the streets of New York;
from Cezanne (married, but solitary nonetheless) painting Mont
Sainte-Victoire over and over again, to the fiercely
self-protective Zora Neale Hurston. Each character portrait is full
of intense detail, the bright wakes they've left behind
illuminating Fenton Johnson's own journey from his childhood in the
backwoods of Kentucky to his travels alone throughout the world and
the people he has lost and found along the way. Combining memoir,
social criticism, and devoted research, At the Center of All Beauty
will resonate with solitaries and with anyone who might wish to
carve out more space for solitude.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
In his resonant account of a spiritual quest, Fenton Johnson
examines what it means for a skeptic to have and to keep faith.
Exploring Western and Eastern monastic traditions, Johnson lives as
a member of the community at the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in
Kentucky and at the branches of the San Francisco Zen Center.
Ultimately his encounter with Buddhism brings him to a new
understanding and embrace of Christianity. Weaving together
meditations on Johnson's spiritual journey with history and
insights from modern monks, Keeping Faith offers a blueprint for a
new way of practicing faith.
The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the
Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works
Progress Administration programs. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet
Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro
in Illinois employed Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine
Dunham, Fenton Johnson, Frank Yerby, Richard Durham, and other
major black writers living in Chicago. The authors chronicled the
African American experience in Illinois from the beginnings of
slavery to the Great Migration. Individual chapters discuss various
aspects of public and domestic life, recreation, politics,
religion, literature, and performing arts. After the project's
cancellation in 1942, most of the writings went unpublished for
more than half a century--until now. Editor Brian Dolinar provides
an informative introduction and epilogue which explain the origins
of the project and place it in the context of the Black Chicago
Renaissance.
The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the
Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works
Progress Administration programs. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet
Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro
in Illinois employed Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine
Dunham, Fenton Johnson, Frank Yerby, Richard Durham, and other
major black writers living in Chicago. The authors chronicled the
African American experience in Illinois from the beginnings of
slavery to the Great Migration. Individual chapters discuss various
aspects of public and domestic life, recreation, politics,
religion, literature, and performing arts. After the project's
cancellation in 1942, most of the writings went unpublished for
more than half a century--until now. Editor Brian Dolinar provides
an informative introduction and epilogue which explain the origins
of the project and place it in the context of the Black Chicago
Renaissance.
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