This waiting for love
Subtitle: Helene Johnson, poet of the Harlem Renaissance
By: edited and with an introduction by Verner D. Mitchell ; foreword by Cheryl A. Wall ; afterword by Abigail McGrath.
Contributors: Mitchell, Verner D., 1957-
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Johnson, Helene, 1906-1995 -- Correspondence.; African American women -- Poetry.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.; African American women poets -- Correspondence.; African American poets -- Correspondence.; African Americans -- Poetry.; Love poetry, American.; Feminism -- Poetry.; Harlem Renaissance.; New York (N.Y.) -- Poetry.
Genres: Correspondence.; Poetry.
Description: "This volume brings together much of the known poetry and a selection of correspondence by an enormously talented but underappreciated poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and friend of Zora Neale Hurston, Helene Johnson (1906-1995) first gained literary prominence when James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost selected three of her poems for prizes in a 1926 competition.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, her poetry appeared in various small magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Quill, Palms, Opportunity, and Harlem. In 1933 Johnson married, and two years later her last published poem, "Let Me Sing My Song," appeared in Challenge, the journal West had founded in an attempt to revive the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes all of the author's published poems and a selection of correspondence.