God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (The Penguin poets) - Softcover

Johnson, James Weldon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014042217X ISBN 13: 9780140422177

Publisher: Penguin, 1981

Synopsis

This collection of poems attempts to recreate a vanishing part of Black American spiritual culture - the inspirational sermons of old-time Negro preachers. Using punctuation and line arrangements he captures the fervour of the congregation and underlines the importance of these sermons in the development of Black culture. James Wheldon Johnson is the author of "Along this Way" and "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man".

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About the Author

James Weldon Johnson 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, Along This Way. Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Black Manhattan, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014042217X
• ISBN 13: 9780140422177
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80