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04071aam a2200433Li 4500 001 F1CCF6646B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 140624s2013 nyuc e b 000 mdeng d 035 $a (OCoLC)882199007 040 $a HHG $b eng $e rda $c HHG $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OTZ $d IWA $d SILO 100 1 $a Johnson, Helene, $d 1906-1995, $e author. 240 10 $a Poems. $k Selections 245 15 $a "The boat is tethered to the floor" : $b after the Harlem Renaissance / $c Helene Johnson ; Emily Rosamond Claman, editor. 264 1 $a New York : $b Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, $c 2013. 300 $a 70 pages : $b portrait ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; $v series 4, number 5, Fall 2013 563 $a As issued, stapled in gray paper; in prefab case, 28 cm. 500 $a "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. 500 $a Title of II. The street to the establishment misspelled on contents page: The street to the establsihment. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $t Biographical notes. $t Introduction / $r Emily Rosamond Claman ; $t I. The boat is tethered to the floor -- $t II. The street to the establishment -- $t III. Old woman in the city -- $t IV. Black boughs against the blue ; $t Acknowledgements -- $t Biographical notes. 545 0 $a "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. 520 $a "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. 600 10 $a Johnson, Helene, $d 1906-1995. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century 655 0 $a American poetry $x African American authors $y 20th century. 655 0 $a American poetry $x Women authors $y 20th century. 655 0 $a Chapbooks, American $y 21st century. 700 1 $a Claman, Emily Rosamond, $e writer of additional text. $e writer of additional text. 700 1 $a Alcalay, Ammiel, $e editor of series. 700 1 $a Mangum, Megan, $e book designer. 710 2 $a City University of New York. $b Center for the Humanities, $e publisher. 752 $a United States $b New York $d New York. 830 0 $a Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; $v series 4, number 5. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826110214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F1CCF6646B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search