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African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Richard Bruce Nugent Drawing 2 from "Fire!!" (1926)

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Fire!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists (November 1926) (Full text)

Prefatory Material, including Wallace Thurman's commentary essay "Fire Burns"

Table of Contents:
Prefatory material, including Wallace Thurman's commentary Essay, "Fire Burns"
Wallace Thurman, "Cordelia the Crude" (1926)
Zora Neale Hurston, "Color Struck" (1926)
Countee Cullen, "From the Dark Tower" (1926)
Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)
Edward Silvera, "Jungle Taste" (1926)
Waring Cuney, "The Death Bed" (1926)
Langston Hughes, "Elevator Boy" (1926)
Langston Hughes, "Railroad Avenue" (1926)
Arna Bontemps, "Length of Moon" (1926)
Lewis Alexander, "Streets" (1926)
Gwendolyn Bennett, "Wedding Day" (1926)
Bruce Nugent, "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" (1926)
Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat" (1926)
Arthur Huff Fauset, "Intelligentsia"

Table of Contents

COVER DESIGNS Aaron Douglas
FOREWORD
DRAWING Richard Bruce

CORDELIA THE CRUDE, A Harlem Sketch... Wallace Thurman
COLOR STRUCK, A Play in Four Scenes ...... Zora Neale Hurston
FLAME FROM THE DARK TOWER .......A Section of Poetry

Countee Cullen
Helene Johnson
Edward Silvers
Waring Cuney
Langston Hughes
Arna Bontemps
Lewis Alexander

DRAWING ........Richard Bruce
WEDDING DAY , A Story.....Gwendolyn Bennett
THREE DRAWINGS.............Aaron Douglas
SMOKE, LILIES AND JADE, A Novel, Part I.................Richard Bruce
SWEAT, A Story.........Zora Neale Hurston
INTELLIGENTSIA , An Essay.......... Arthur Huff Fauset
FIRE BURNS, Editorial Comment..Wallace Thurman
INCIDENTAL ART DECORATIONS..........Aaron Douglas

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