Clouds and Sunshine e-bog

Clouds and Sunshine (1920) is a collection of poems by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming. Published during the Harlem Renaissance, Clouds and Sunshine is a powerful work of poetry exploring themes of faith, racial identity, loss, and love in twentieth century America. Recognized as a leading advocate for the advancement of Black girls and women throughout her life, Fleming is a writer whose voice never falters from the task at hand: telling the story of her people. Separated into three sections, Clouds and Sunshine shows Flemings prowess as a lyric poet of the Romantic persuasion, a dialect poet in the tradition of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and a groundbreaking political writer who observed the experiences of Black Americans while recording and examining her own. In "e;Tuskegee,"e; she offers an ode to the iconic institution founded by Booker T. Washington in Alabama: "e;On thy consecrated ground / Is carved a wondrous story, / Out of chaos, Washington / Raised this place to glory."e; In "e;The Black Man's Hope,"e; located in the section titled "e;Race Poems,"e; Fleming condemns the politics of the United States, which promises so much to white Americans while betraying time and again a people it never meant to recognize as citizens: "e;I hear the talk of the white man's hope / In the ring and at the poll, / But never a word of the black man's hope / Do I hear as time doth roll. // Bowed with the weight which slavery left / Upon his chattled frame, / No star of hope comes into view / The weight is still the same."e; In two brief stanzas, Fleming effectively condemns the emptiness offered with every election cycle. Far from despairing, she makes a powerful case for resistance while telling a terrible truth: prejudice is a manmade thing, and only targeted action can undo it. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Lee Brown Fleming's Clouds and Sunshine is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.