Bronze: A Book of Verse

by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Book by Johnson, Georgia Douglas Camp

Genres: Poetry

101 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1922

About the author

Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson, was an American poet, one of the earliest African-American female playwrights, and a member of the Harlem Renaissance.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Tatyana Vogt · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75 rounding up

So I discovered this poet in a penguin classics collection of poetry by black poets (minor note Vol 01), and I REALLY loved her poem in that book so I was super excited to find a full collection of hers. The first couple of poems made me question if it was going to be any good and then I hit gem after gem and was very satisfied with most of the remaining poems. Its not gettting a full five stars because of the few in the beggining that were pretty mid and the ones at the end that were all dedicated to people of the time, which I like the idea of that, but ended up not fully caring about most of the actually poems themselves in that section.

The middle was filled with gold, and I would recommend this to poetry lovers.

[ash · Rating 4 out of 5]

a beautiful collection on being a black woman and a mother, delving into various identities as a black person

[Justin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid poems, nothing earth shattering.