Minor Notes, Volume 1: Poems by a Slave; Visions of the Dusk; and Bronze: A Book of Verse. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Minor Notes, Volume 1: Poems by a Slave; Visions of the Dusk; and Bronze: A Book of Verse

minor notes vol. 1 presenta il lavoro di tre poeti. Pubblicato nel 1837, poems by a slave è una delle opere meno note di george moses horton (1798-1883), un tempo popolarmente noto come il "bardo nero della carolina del nord". Visions of the dusk (1915) è un poema in prosa americano noto per la sua innovazione formale da parte di fenton johnson, poeta, saggista, editore ed educatore di chicago. Georgia douglas johnson è stata la poetessa nera più letta negli stati uniti durante i primi tre decenni del xx secolo. Bronze: a book of verse (1922) è stato introdotto con una prefazione di web du bois.

Joshua Bennett is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016) a finalist for an NAACP Image Award, Property Once Myself (Harvard, 2020) and Owed (Penguin, 2020). He received the 2021 Whiting Award for Poetry and Nonfiction. His first work of narrative nonfiction, Spoken Word: A Cultural History, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2023.
 
Jesse McCarthy is assistant professor of English and African and African American studies at Harvard University. He is an editor at the Point and has written for n+1, Dissent, the Nation, and the New Republic. His critically acclaimed essay collection Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? (Liveright 2021) was a NYT Editor’s Choice.