God's Trombones
Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$26.21
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2008
Summary
Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon JohnsonJames Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God’s Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals. This classic col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105411 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143105418 |
| Author: | James Weldon Johnson, Maya Angelou, Henry Louis Gates |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 81g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 131mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnsonwas born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University-experiences recorded in his autobiography,Along This Way. Other books by him includeSaint Peter Relates an Incident,Black Manhattan, andGod’s Trombones- Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.
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