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Harlem Shadows (1922): Digital Edition

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Here we present a digital edition of Harlem Shadows with poems in the original order of publication. This book was first published in New York in 1922. It was McKay's fourth book of poetry, but his first published in the U.S. 

A number of the poems contained in Harlem Shadows were first published in earlier collections like the British Spring in New Hampshire, as well as in various literary magazines in England and the U.S. Where possible, I have included Metadata with information about original dates of publication for poems that appeared in multiple venues between 1916 and 1922. 

Many poems in this digital edition of Harlem Shadows are marked by thematic tags, such as race, class, city, sexuality, nature, and home. Users can see how the different thematic tags relate to each other in a network diagram using the menus on the upper corner of the screen (go to "Visualization" and then select "Tag"). 

The text of the poems here was extracted from a "dirty OCR" version of the collection derived from the Internet Archive. Cleaning of the OCR, editing for the web, and thematic tagging was performed by the seven students mentioned on the home page for this site. The site has been rebuilt in Scalar by Amardeep Singh; additional metadata has also been added by Amardeep Singh. 

--Amardeep Singh. November 2016

This page has paths:

  1. Introduction: About this Site Amardeep Singh

Contents of this path:

  1. Max Eastman, Introduction to Harlem Shadows
  2. Author's Word (Preface to Harlem Shadows)
  3. The Easter Flower
  4. To One Coming North
  5. America
  6. Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table
  7. The Tropics in New York
  8. Flame-Heart
  9. Home Thoughts
  10. On Broadway
  11. The Barrier
  12. Adolescence
  13. Homing Swallows
  14. After the Winter
  15. A Red Flower
  16. A Prayer
  17. Absence
  18. The City's Love
  19. Wild May
  20. North and South
  21. The Plateau
  22. The Wild Goat
  23. Harlem Shadows
  24. The White City
  25. The Spanish Needle
  26. My Mother
  27. In Bondage
  28. December, 1919
  29. Heritage
  30. Enslaved
  31. When I Have Passed Away
  32. I Shall Return
  33. Africa
  34. Morning Joy
  35. On a Primitive Canoe
  36. Winter in the Country
  37. To Winter
  38. Spring in New Hampshire
  39. On the Road
  40. The Harlem Dancer
  41. Dawn in New York
  42. Outcast
  43. The Tired Worker
  44. I Know My Soul
  45. Birds of Prey (1922 version)
  46. The Castaways
  47. Exhortation: Summer 1919
  48. The Lynching
  49. Baptism
  50. If We Must Die
  51. The Night Fire
  52. Subway Wind
  53. Poetry
  54. To a Poet
  55. When Dawn Comes to the City
  56. A Prayer
  57. O Word I Love To Sing
  58. Rest in Peace
  59. Summer Morn in New Hampshire (1922 version)
  60. A Red Flower
  61. To O.E.A.
  62. Courage
  63. Flower of Love
  64. Romance
  65. A Memory of June
  66. La Paloma in London
  67. The Snow Fairy
  68. Flirtation
  69. Tormented
  70. Polarity
  71. One Year After
  72. French Leave
  73. Jasmines
  74. Futility
  75. Commemoration
  76. Through Agony
  77. Thirst
  78. Memorial

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