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Article: Poetry today.(Harlem Gallery and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson)(Book Review)
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- The Antioch Review
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- June 22, 2005
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Has the time come to read Melvin B. Tolson? He was a remarkable American modernist, but he was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. The wrong place was Moberly, Missouri; that is, the United States. Once one runs up against the high intellectuality of Tolson's two major poetic sequences, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (1953) and Harlem Gallery (1965), one better imagines this at once scholarly and identity-searching Black American self-expatriated to the Latin Quarter of Paris during the 1930s. There he would have consorted with Aime Cesaire, Leon Damas and Leopold Sedar Senghor, debated their new-found concept of Negritude (which he jokingly rechristens the ...
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