A review by florizona
Harlem Shadows: Poems by Claude McKay

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

Sonnets, botany and physical love? Five stars. The contrasts between the environs of McCay’s youth in lushly tropical Jamaica and the cold wet city of NYC hit hard as well, with nature a force for love and health and the populous city a force for racism, illness, overwork. I love the odes to Spanish Needle, jasmine, flame lilies, and the celebration of languor in French Leave.