Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis started writing poetry when he was in college. An editor and poet, he was born in Kansas but moved to several places around the US. Under Davis’s editorship, the Atlanta Daily World became the first successful Black daily newspaper in America.
Black Man's Verse
Black Man's Verse is a miniature book of poetry that combines Davis' interest in free verse and jazz into a bitterly direct image of the issues that feed racial oppression and its impact on the social structure of American society. In the first section of the book, called "Fragments," Davis writes about finding a woman's soul in his poem entitled "Finding." He also wrote a seasonal poem from his home state, titled "Kansas Winter."
Black Man’s Verse (1935), was widely celebrated for its innovative adaptations of African American vernacular forms, including the blues and jazz. Davis's poetry "is characterised by robust statements of urban themes, a fierce social consciousness, a strong declamatory voice, and an almost rabid race pride"
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