Black Moods Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg In these probing dialogues

In these probing dialogues

Without the existence of flowering plants

Drawing on a vast archive and with an ambitious narrative scope that transcends national borders

composed and performed

from March 1862 to December 1864

Black Moods Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg In these probing dialoguesBlack Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his previously unpublished work. From sharp edged sketches of Southside Chicago's urban landscape to the prismatic world that lay beneath Hawaii's placid surface, Davis's muscular poems blend social, cultural, and political concerns always shaped by his promise to ''try to be as direct as good blues.'' John Edgar Tidwell's introduction examines both