Review of Complete Poems

@article{citeulike:1352211, abstract = {Scholars presently are reassessing the poet through fertile new critical modes, however, and William J. Maxwell's gathering of McKay's Complete Poems, issued by the University of Illinois Press's American Poetry Recovery Series, materially enhances the current flurry over the New Negro author. Such exultant poems as "The International Spirit," written in the year that McKay published his best-selling black proletarian novel, Home to Harlem (1928)-the same year that the Comintern's Sixth World Congress passed a resolution that African Americans in the US South constituted an "oppressed nation"-contest the orthodoxy that McKay chucked Leninism during the early 1920s.}, author = {Holcomb, Gary E. }, citeulike-article-id = {1352211}, journal = {African American Review}, keywords = {mckay, reviews}, number = {2}, pages = {383--386}, posted-at = {2007-05-31 17:56:02}, priority = {2}, title = {Review of Complete Poems}, volume = {40}, year = {2006} }

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