Complete poems /Claude McKay ; edited and with an introduction by William J. Maxwell.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008.
- 1 online resource
- American poetry recovery series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Claude McKay : lyric poetry in the age of cataclysm / Jamaican periodical poetry, 1911-12 -- Songs of Jamaica (1912) -- Constab ballads (1912) -- Early English and American poetry, 1916-22 -- Harlem shadows (1922) -- The Clinic, circa 1923 -- The years between, 1925-34 -- Cities, circa 1934 -- The cycle, circa 1943 -- Final Catholic poetry, 1945-47. William J. Maxwell --
"Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred published here for the first time, this collection showcases the range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest."--Jacket