The messenger reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the messenger magazine

Wilson, Sondra K. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 037575539X (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780375755392 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxv, 418 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2000.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-418).

Formatted Contents Note:

Poetry. Song ; Woodnote / Arna Bontemps -- Pagan prayer / Countee P. Cullen -- To Miss Harriet E. Riggs / Angelina W. Grimke -- Her thirteen black soldiers / Archibald H. Grimke -- Too much religion ; The bursting of the chrysalis ; Here and hereafter ; Love's unchangeableness ; The voice of the wilderness ; Credo ; Where air of freedom is / Walter Everette Hawkins -- Ruthlessville ; The song of psyche ; The song ; Dreams are the workman's friends ; My motive ; Countee Cullen ; Sphinxes ; That poison, late sleep / Thomas Millard Henry -- Grant Park ; Gods ; Prayer for a winter night ; Minnie sings her blues ; Formula ; Poem for youth ; The naughty child ; Desire / Langston Hughes -- To love ; Africa ; Your voice keeps ringing down the day ; Paradox ; Romance ; Promise ; Toy ; Prejudice ; Crucifixion ; Appassionata ; Disenthralment ; Loss ; Karma / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Fiat Lux ; Love in Midsummer / Helene Johnson -- Variations on a black theme / S. Miller Johnson -- If we must die ; Labor's day ; Birds of prey / Claude McKay -- Query / R. Bruce Nugent -- Up, sons of freedom! / William Pickens -- Confession / Wallace Thurman.