Her Eyes a Rising Star: 9 Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Folio box dimensions: 9” x 12.5” x 2”
Box contents: 9 booklets, each 8.5” x 11, with 16 pages (144 total). Each booklet includes a portrait of the poet, a 2-page biography, and a selection of poems. Full bibliography included.
Medium: Digital offset. This collection is for enjoying and studying; while care should be taken in handling, it isn’t intended for “white glove” treatment as a precious object.
Edition: 25; 3 sets remaining.
The 1920s ushered in an era of immense creativity for Black musicians, playwrights, visual artists, and writers of all kinds, including poets. Included in this collection is a sampling of the works of Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Anne Spencer, who were among the most widely published of the Harlem Renaissance poets.
Also included are Mae Virginia Cowdery and Effie Lee Newsome, who produced substantial bodies of work that have become less familiar with time. The poems in this collection speak of love, loss, family, identity, social justice, and the beauty of nature. They’re still fresh and vibrant, some one hundred years after they were written. “Her eyes a rising star” is from the poem “Lines to a Nasturtium” by Anne Spencer.
Compiled and edited by Nava Atlas
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