Research Catalog

Title

"The boat is tethered to the floor" : after the Harlem Renaissance / Helene Johnson ; Emily Rosamond Claman, editor.

Author

Johnson, Helene, 1906-1995

Publication

• New York : Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2013.
• Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution.
• ©2013.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Claman, Emily Rosamond
• Alcalay, Ammiel
• Mangum, Megan
• City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, publisher.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

70 pages : portrait; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 4, number 5, Fall 2013

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; ser. 4, no. 5.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Johnson, Helene, 1906-1995

Genre/Form

• American poetry – 20th century.
• American poetry – African American authors – 20th century.
• American poetry – Women authors – 20th century.
• Chapbooks, American – 21st century.
• Chapbooks – New York (State) – New York – 2013.

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A note on the text -- Introduction / Emily Rosamond Claman ; I. The boat is tethered to the floor -- II. The street to the establishment -- III. Old woman in the city -- IV. Black boughs against the blue ; Acknowledgements -- Biographical notes.

OCLC

• 882199007
• SCSB-10826975

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library