Visions of the Dusk

by Fenton Johnson

Poems.

71 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1915

About the author

Fenton Johnson was an American poet, essayist, author of short stories, editor, and educator. Johnson came from a middle-class African-American family in Chicago. His work is often included in anthologies of 20th-century poetry, and he is noted for early prose poetry. James Weldon Johnson (no relation) called Fenton, "one of the first Negro revolutionary poets."

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Reviews

[Gijs Limonard · Rating 3 out of 5]

By accident stumbled on this author/poet by his namesake, the author of ‘at the center of all beauty’; sometimes regarded as a forerunner of the Harlem renaissance, some of Johnson’s poems are rendered in the ‘corrupted language of the American Negro’ as can be read in the blatant racist review included in the foreword (of course completely normal in 1915). As for the poetry; good not great.