Songs of Jamaica - (Mint Editions) by Claude McKay

Songs of Jamaica (1912) by Claude McKay is a groundbreaking poetry collection that celebrates the resilience and cultural achievement of the African American community while lamenting the poverty and violence they face every day.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Songs of Jamaica offers hope for a brighter future to come.

Addressing himself to a white audience, McKay exposes the schism inherent to colonial society between white and black, rich and poor, and advises his reader to question their privileged consumption dependent on the subjugation of Jamaica's black community.

This revolutionary sentiment carries throughout the collection, finding an echo in the brilliant poem "Whe' fe do?" Addressed to his own people, McKay offers hope for a brighter future to come: "We needn' fold we han' an' cry, / Nor vex we heart wid groan and sigh; / De best we can do is fe try / To fight de despair drawin' night: / Den we might conquer by an' by- / Dat we might do."