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dabbe

Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32) | Countee Cullen

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#verdict
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IndoorDame

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes | Langston Hughes

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Kylenbosworth

Harlem Summer | Walter Dean Myers

so-so

Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, 1998. Caldecott Honor Book. Harlem is a story about black people moving to a new city in hopes of a better life. This book uses complex vocabulary and detailed descriptions of the setting such as the noises and colors of the city. There are strong depictions of culture and life during that time.

Dilara

Selected Poems | Claude McKay

Reading the Selected Poems of Claude McKay (found on Everand). Some of them are surprisingly uncodedly #gay for 1912.
And I made some Jamaican cornmeal porridge from here: https://www.jamaican-recipes.com/jamaicanporridge.html #FoodandLit #Jamaica It's flavoured with cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. I poured coconut milk over it.
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Texreader You make porridge sounds delicious. How was it? 3mo

Catsandbooks Oh yum!! 🇯🇲 3mo

Dilara @Texreader It was very nice! It couldn't not be, really, given the ingredients 😁
I'll definitely make it again. 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes | Langston Hughes

so-so

Probably best to take this as personal opinion rather
than objective qualitative review. Mostly because
me and poetry are frequently at odds! There were a
double-fistful of poems I enjoyed, there were many
more that spoke to important issues. There were a
quite a number that discussed blues and jazz and a
couple sections that were written to evoke music or
actual song lyrics! 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? And a bunch that lamented
romantic relationships, not always demonstrating
that healthiest dynamics. It's unfair to say that a lot
of it felt like a lot of repeats, because certainly
poet's have favourite themes. There were definitely
many poems which could as easily have been short
articles, opinion pieces on current events, which is
not to say the art form can't stretch to that type of
commentary. It's heartbreaking on two fronts: 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Hughes early hopes for communism, and having to
write for DECADES about injustice and racism
perpetrated on Black people, people of colour,
minorities, the poor. A heavy book in multiple
senses! Anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, pro-revolution, pro-union. Seems to go back and forth on religion. Nearly as much work on classism, economic inequality as racism. Has much to say and does not mince words! 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/6 While a product of his time and tackling the issues of his day, I think you could quote a lot of what is here in reference to what social ills we're still fighting.

⚠️suicidal ideation, antisemitism, outdated/offensive language, racism, racially motivated murder, SA, domestic abuse, slavery, police violence, hypocrisy of fighting for democracy without civil rights, deaths in and out of conflict zones
(edited) 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/6 A selection of poems that spoke to me:
My People
Gods
Exists
Dear Lovely Death
Militant
Merry Christmas
Tired
A Christian Country
The Coloured Soldier
Open Letter to the South
Goodbye Christ
Letter to the Academy
History
White Man
In Time if Silver Rain
This Puzzles Me
The Bitter River
Wake
Beaumont to Detroit: 1943
Freedom [2]
Ballad of Sam Solomon
Second Generation: New York
Cafe: 3 am
Subway Rush Hour
Bible Belt
Northern Liberal
(edited) 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 Dinner Guest: Me
Mother in Wartime
Governor Fires Dean 4mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes | Langston Hughes