{"product_id":"lift-every-voice-and-sing-isbn-9780141183879","title":"Lift Every Voice and Sing","description":"This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Lift Every Voice and SingPreface by Sondra Kathryn Wilson\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day\u003cbr\u003eO Black and Unknown Bards\u003cbr\u003eBrothers - American Drama\u003cbr\u003eO Southland!\u003cbr\u003eWe to America\u003cbr\u003eMother Night\u003cbr\u003eThe Young Warrior\u003cbr\u003eThe White Witch\u003cbr\u003eMy City\u003cbr\u003eThe Glory of the Day Was in Her Face\u003cbr\u003eLife\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Mammy\u003cbr\u003eFragment\u003cbr\u003eMother, Farewell! (from the Spanish of Placido)\u003cbr\u003eGirl of Fifteen\u003cbr\u003eThe Suicide\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown by the Carib Sea - \u003cbr\u003eSunrise in the Tropics\u003cbr\u003eLos Cigarrillos\u003cbr\u003eTeestay\u003cbr\u003eThe Lottery Girl\u003cbr\u003eThe Dancing Girl\u003cbr\u003eSunset in the Tropics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep in the Quiet Wood\u003cbr\u003ePrayer at Sunrise\u003cbr\u003eHer Eyes Twin Pools\u003cbr\u003eVashti\u003cbr\u003eIf I Were Paris\u003cbr\u003eGhosts of the Old Year\u003cbr\u003eBeauty Never Old\u003cbr\u003eBlessed Sleep\u003cbr\u003eThe Greatest of These Is War\u003cbr\u003eA Poet to His Baby Son\u003cbr\u003eMa Lady's Lips Am Like de Honey\u003cbr\u003eA Plantation Bacchanal\u003cbr\u003eTunk\u003cbr\u003eBrer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All\u003cbr\u003eAnswer to Prayer\u003cbr\u003eA Banjo Song\u003cbr\u003eThe Rivals\u003cbr\u003eSence You Went Away\u003cbr\u003eLift Every Voice and Sing\u003cbr\u003eEnvoy\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Placido's \"Mother, Farewell!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Weldon Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e was 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, \u003cb\u003eAlong This Way\u003c\/b\u003e.  Other books by him include \u003cb\u003eSaint Peter Relates an Incident\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eBlack Manhattan\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eGod's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.\u003c\/b\u003e  In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals.  He died in 1938.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301401579749,"sku":"NP9780141183879","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141183879.jpg?v=1767731450","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lift-every-voice-and-sing-isbn-9780141183879","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}