Richard Wright: Primary (Poetry) and Secondary Source Bibliographies

Poetry

[The following list includes all of Wright's published poems, except haiku:]

"Ah Feels It in Mah Bones," International Literature, No. 4 (April 1935), p. 80.

"Between the World and Me," Partisan Review, 2 (July-August 1935), 18-19.

"Child of the Dead and Forgotten Gods," The Anvil, No. 5 (March-April 1934), p. 30.

"Everywhere Burning Waters Rise," Left Front, 1 (May-June 1934), 9.

Haiku (eight poems), Ebony 16 (February 1961), 92-93.

Haiku (four poems), Richard Wright: A Biography, by Constance Webb (New York, 1968), pp. 393-394.

"Hearst Headline Blues," New Masses, 19 (12 May 1936), 14.

"I Am a Red Slogan," International Literature, No. 4 (April 1935), p. 35.

"I Have Seen Black Hands," New Masses, 11 (26 June 1934), 16.

"King Joe," New York Amsterdam Star News, 18 October 1941.

"Obsession," Midland Left, No. 2 (February 1935), p. 14.

"Old Habit and New Love," New Masses, 21 (15 December 1936), 29.

"Red Clay Blues," New Masses, 32 (I August 1939), 14 (With Langston Hughes).

"Red Leaves of Red Books," New Masses, 15 (30 April 1935), 6.

"A Red Love Note," Left Front, 1 (January-February 1934), 3.

"Rest for the Weary," Left Front, 1 (January-February 1934.), 3.

"Rise and Live," Midland Left, No. 2 (February 1935), pp. 13-14.

"Spread Your Sunrise!" New Masses, 16 (2 July 1935), 26.

"Strength," The Anvil, No. 5 (March-April 1934), p. 20.

"Transcontinental," International Literature, No. I (January 1936), pp. 52-57.

Untitled poem, Richard Wright: A Biography, by Constance Webb (New York, 1968), 357.

"We of the Streets," New Masses, 23 (13 April 1937), 14.

from Keneth Kinnamon's "Richard Wright: Proletarian Poet." In Critical Essays on Richard Wright. Ed. Yoshinobu Hakutani. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982: 250-251.

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Critical Bibliography (Selected)

Fabre, Michel. "The Poetry of Richard Wright" in Critical Essays on Richard Wright. Ed. Yoshinobu Hakutani. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982, 252-271.

Kinnamon, Keneth. "Richard Wright: Proletarian Poet" in Critical Essays on Richard Wright. Ed. Yoshinobu Hakutani. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982, 243-251,

Maxwell, William J. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Miller, Eugene E. Voice of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

Mullen, Bill. Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

North, Michael. The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language & Twentieth-Century Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Richard Wright Reader. Ed. Ellen Wright and Michel Fabre. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.

Smethurst, James Edward. The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Tener, Robert. "The Where, the When, the What: A Study of Richard Wright's Haiku" in Critical Essays on Richard Wright. Ed. Yoshinobu Hakutani. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982, 273-298.

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