#HarlemShadows: The #Poems of #ClaudeMcKay
A collection of #poetry crafted during the early 20th century. This book captures the essence of McKay's experiences as a Black man navigating life in America, exploring themes of identity, race, love, and the deep yearnings of the human spirit x.gd/ZDMcR
Just started reading Home To Harlem by Claude McKay. Part of my Library of America Harlem Renaissance volume. I've read McKay before: Romance In Marseille. He's a wonderful writer!
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Books: A Peep Into Claude McKay’s “Letters in Exile”
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
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If We Must Die by Claude McKay
In conversation with Claude McKay's "If we must die."
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#Poem of the week: "My Mother" by #ClaudeMcKay
Two #sonnets absorb with calm clarity a boy’s anguish at his mother’s loss
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“¡Contra la pared, a punto de morir, pero luchando!” #ClaudeMcKay #poesía #afroamericana en #LaTregua C/ Evangelista 57 Sevilla #Miércoles 24/09 21:00h 🌲📚@RosarioSolano @1001Lectores @libreros @poemame_poesia @eldispensario @viercame @promocionLibros romerobarea.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/2...
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"If we must die,
Let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark
The mad, hungry dogs.
Making the mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die,
O let us nobly die!”
– Claude McKay
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🗣Citation du jour🌟
« Le patriote aime, non sa nation, mais la mesquinerie spirituelle de sa vie dont il s'est fait une frontière qui lui cache la beauté d'autres horizons. »
✍🏾Claude McKay
📚Banjo
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📖 #Poem of the week: Two #sonnets by #ClaudeMcKay
The #HarlemRenaissance #poet brings classical craft to a pair of works reflecting on the ‘cultured hell’ of a black US citizen
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#OTD #TDIH #May22, 1948: #DOTD: #RIP #ClaudeMcKay.
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Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily Soft-scented in the air for yards around; Alone, without a hint of guardian leaf! Just like a fragile bell of silver rime, It burst the tomb for freedom sweet and brief In the young pregnant year at Eastertime; And many thought it was a sacred sign, And some called it the resurrection flower; And I, a pagan, worshiped at its shrine, Yielding my heart unto its perfumed power.
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The Easter Flower by Claude McKay
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning’s white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night, We’ll turn our faces southward, love, Toward the summer isle Where bamboos spire the shafted grove And wide-mouthed orchids smile. And we will seek the quiet hill Where towers the cotton tree, And leaps the laughing crystal rill, And works the droning bee. And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade, With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, And ferns that never fade.
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After the Winter by Claude McKay
📢 Claude McKay, de Harlem à Marseille
🎥 Un documentaire sur l’écrivain jamaïcain, figure de la Harlem Renaissance, son engagement politique et ses réflexions sur les migrations.
🗓 3 mars 2025
📍 Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
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“If We Must Die” by Claude McKay stands as one of the most powerful poems in literary history, capturing resilience & the fight for justice. A timeless work that speaks to strength, unity, and defiance in the face of adversity. #BlackHistory #ClaudeMcKay #Poetry #Resilience #Justice #LiteraryLegends
"...fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills." #ClaudeMcKay
Heritage
Claude McKay
1922
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“America”
Claude McKay
1922
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Was always afraid to fly on planes. So reading was my mode of travel. Can’t wait to dive into this book and go wherever it takes me! #claudemckay #reading #fiction #book
3) What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
#ClaudeMcKay
Like men we’ll face the murderous,
Cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall,
Dying, but fighting back!
-Claude McKay • #ifwemustdie
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#scribesandvibes • #therebirthofcool • #ClaudeMcKay • #Poetry • #NationalPoetryMonth
