This volume is the first complete collection of Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Harlem Renaissance poems, allowing readers an opportunity to absorb the true breadth and depth of Fauset’s insightful and relevant poetry. Readers will find the truths in Jessie Fauset’s beautiful and accessible poems as profound and moving today as they were a hundred years ago.
Fauset’s novels and short stories addressed themes of racial identity, gender restraints, class conflicts, and institutional racism. Her fiction opens a door to her inner self. Through her poetry, she brings us even closer to her heart with more intimate expressions of beauty, love, anger, pain, and playfulness. ‘La Vie C’est La Vie’ expresses unrequited love. ‘Oriflamme’ is a powerful and personal indictment of slavery. Fauset contributed many fun and adventurous poems for children to The Brownies’ Book.
Her poetry appeared consistently in anthologies and periodicals. And yet her accomplishments as a literary artist have been largely overlooked. Today, Fauset’s writing is being reexamined and applauded.
As the Literary Editor of The Crisis, the largest African American periodical of the era, Fauset discovered and cultivated writers, including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Fauset was the Literary Editor of The Brownies’ Book, the first magazine dedicated to entertaining and empowering African American children. For more than two decades, Fauset shared influential articles, essays, and reviews, and worked tirelessly as an activist for race and gender equality. Jessie Fauset was published more than any other African American woman of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Introduction
1. THE LOST POEMS
Nostalgia
Episode
Divine Afflatus
Christmas Eve in France
Fragment
Touché
Song For a Lost Comrade
Rain Fugue
2. MORE POEMS
La Vie C’est La Vie
Dead Fires
Oriflamme
Noblesse Oblige
The Return
Words! Words!
Rencontre
Rondeau
Courage! He Said
Stars in Alabama
Here’s April
Dilworth Road Revisited
Douce Souvenance
Again It Is September (Illustrated by Laura Wheeler)
3. TRANSLATIONS
Oblivion by Massillon Coicou
The Pool by Amédée Brun
To a Foreign Maid by Oswald Durand
The Sun of Brittainy
4. POEMS FOR CHILDREN
Dedication
After School (Illustrated by Laura Wheeler)
That Story of George Washington
At the Zoo (Illustrated by Hilda Rue Wilkinson)
The Easter Idyl (Illustrated by Laura Wheeler)
Spring Songs (Illustrated by Albert K. Smith)
The Runaway Kite
The Singing Top
The Teasing Hoop
‘Salt! Vinegar! Mustard!’
Adventures On Roller Skates
The Happy Organ Grinder
Two Christmas Songs
I. The Crescent Moon
II. Christmas Eve
Bibliography
Over de auteur
As the Literary Editor of The Crisis, the largest African American periodical of the era, Fauset discovered and cultivated writers, including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Fauset was the Literary Editor of The Brownies’ Book, the first magazine dedicated to entertaining and empowering African American children. For more than two decades, Fauset shared influential articles, essays, and reviews, and worked tirelessly as an activist for race and gender equality. Jessie Fauset was published more than any other African American woman of the Harlem Renaissance.
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