God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

by James Weldon Johnson

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 Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals. This classic collection includes "Listen Lord (A Prayer)," "The Creation," "The Prodigal Son," "Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon)," "Noah Built the Ark," "The Crucifixion," "Let My People Go," and "The Judgment Day."

For 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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN:
9780143105411
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
James Weldon Johnson
Published Date:
2008-06-01
Language:
English
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About James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) wrote the words of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in 1900. He wrote them for a Lincoln's birthday celebration at the segregated Jacksonville school where he was principal; his brother J. Rosamond Johnson composed the music. He received a BA and an MA from Atlanta University, was admitted to the Florida Bar, and served as United States consul in Venezuela and then Nicaragua before joining the NAACP, whose executive secretary he was from 1920 to 1930. His poetry collections are Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917) and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927); he also wrote the novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and edited The Book of American Negro Poetry. The NAACP gave him its Spingarn Medal in 1925.

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