Description: 'BOUT CULLUD FOLKSES, POEMS by LUCY MAE TURNER, Black Female Harlem Renaissance Vernacular Poet. NEW YORK: Henry Harrison, [1938]. First edition of her first and only book. Hardcovers, yellow cloth covered boards titled in black on the front cover and spine, 5.5x8.5 inches, 64 pages. In its original dustjacket. Condition: GOOD book, the covers are lightly soiled otherwise solid and sharp-cornered; internally the pages are lightly toned, else tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a FAIR dustjacket that is chipped at the margins and spine ends (including missing a 2 inch piece from the bottom of the spine), toned at the spine, and has other signs of general wear; nonetheless this delicate dustjacket is still holding together and retains its $1.50 price at the top of the front flap. A presentable copy with its rare dustjacket. About LUCY MAE TURNER (from Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Maureen Honey, Rutgers University 2006): ******Lucy Mae Turner, b.1865 d.1963, was the granddaughter of Nat Turner, who led the most famous slave revolt in American history in 1831, She was a highly educated and talented poet whose single volume of verse, ’Bout Cullud Folkses (1938), deserves greater attention. Like Zora Neale Hurston, Turner excelled at literary rendering of the working class black vernacular. Going against the tide of literary history, both Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Turner’s 1938 collection are among the last examples of black dialect to be produced by African American writers. Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Ralph Ellison, and other black writers who came to the fore in the 1940s and 1950s created northern urban characters and eschewed dialect as an inappropriate throwback to plantation stereotypes. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks would continue to work in the vernacular, but it was a northern urban slang very different from that used by Hurston and Turner. Lucy Mae Turner's wit, good ear, and political acumen shine through in her vernacular poems.******
Price: 650 USD
Location: Napa, California
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Lucy Mae Turner
Region: North America
Publisher: Henry Harrison
Topic: Poetry, Women, African-American, Harlem Renaissance
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Poetry, African-American, Black Women
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1938
