"The boat is tethered to the floor"
Subtitle: after the Harlem Renaissance
By: Helene Johnson ; Emily Rosamond Claman, editor
Contributors: Claman, Emily Rosamond, editor, writer of additional text; Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series; Mangum, Megan, book designer; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 4, number 5, Fall 2013; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 4, number 5.
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Recognized as an important young voice during the Harlem Renaissance, poet Helene Johnson was thought to have stopped writing some time after 1935 when she no longer published regularly in little magazines and periodicals. With this chapbook, an original manuscript of never-before-seen poems comes to light. Titled The Boat is Tethered to the Floor, the manuscript was evidently prepared for publication by Johnson herself. Written after her move downtown in the 1960s, these poems evoke themes of desire, friendship and aging, and provide an entirely new perspective on the literature of the era."--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: "Recognized as an important young voice during the Harlem Renaissance, poet Helene Johnson was thought to have stopped writing some time after 1935 when she no longer published regularly in little magazines and periodicals. With this chapbook, an original manuscript of never-before-seen poems comes to light. Titled The Boat is Tethered to the Floor, the manuscript was evidently prepared for publication by Johnson herself. Written after her move downtown in the 1960s, these poems evoke themes of desire, friendship and aging, and provide an entirely new perspective on the literature of the era."--Publisher's website.

Title of II. The street to the establishment misspelled on contents page: The street to the establsihment.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Helene Johnson (1906-1995) was born in Boston, MA. After early success as a poet, she moved to Manhattan in 1927 to live with her cousin, Dorothy West. From 1925 to 1935, Johnson published in the periodicals Messenger, Opportunity, Fire!!, Challenge, Palms, Vanity Fair, Saturday Evening Quill, and Harlem. She was also included in the anthologies The Book of American Negro Poetry (1931), The New Negro (1925), and Caroling Dusk (1927). Largely forgotten, her early work was revived by Verner D. Mitchell in This Waiting For Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (2000)."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: A note on the text --; title: Introduction  -- Emily Rosamond Claman ;; title: I. The boat is tethered to the floor --; title: II. The street to the establishment --; title: III. Old woman in the city --; title: IV. Black boughs against the blue ;; title: Acknowledgements --; title: Biographical notes.