Complete Poems
Johnson, James Weldon / Wilson, Sondra Kathryn
This year marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing", James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works -- Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935) -- along with a number of previously unpublished poems.