The Poems: 1941-1950

Excellent view of an emerging modernist culture in a time when little has been shared generally with the mainstream American history instruction in schools. Uplifting and provocative in a positive way. For a whitebread middleclass American, I found this refreshing when compared to the mudslinging of the divisionist politics currently going on in the Presidential election. Each culture has unique views and gifts to share, this was an enlightening view of the Black Culture I had not seen before. Rapping and Krumping glorify the street, these writings glorify the inner soul. I am ordering Volume 2