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The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems
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The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems

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"The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, / As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on." In The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems, Georgia Douglas Johnson reflects on the experience of the African American woman of the early twentieth century. Celebrated for her lyrical brilliance, Johnson is a remarkable poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781513293530
ProduktarteBook
EinbandElectronic Book
FormatEPUB
Format HinweisDRM Adobe
Erscheinungsdatum14.12.2021
ReiheMint Editions (Black Narratives)
Seiten74 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
WarengruppeEnglish
KategoriePoetry (eBook)
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Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966) was an African American poet and playwright. Born in Atlanta, she excelled in school from a young age, learning to read, write, and play violin. She graduated from Atlanta University's Normal School in 1896 before working briefly as a teacher Marietta, Georgia. In 1902, having decided to become a professional musician, she enrolled at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied music theory and learned the art of composition. She later returned to Atlanta, marrying prominent lawyer and Republican party member Henry Lincoln Johnson, with whom she had two sons. After moving to Washington, D.C. in 1910, she embarked on a literary career against her husband's wishes, submitting poems to journals around the country. She published her first collection, The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) to modest acclaim and continued to grow her reputation with poems in The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP edited by W.E.B. Du Bois. Following her husband's death in 1925, she supported herself and her sons with various jobs and maintained a staggering output of poems, plays, short stories, and newspaper columns. She also began hosting prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance at her home, which she called the S Street Salon, providing a meeting place for such legendary artists and intellectuals as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Alain Locke, and Eulalie Spence. She is recognized today as a prominent anti-lynching activist, a pioneering poet, and one of the first African American woman playwrights.

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