A review by owenm1116
Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay by Claude McKay

4.0

McKay’s poetry does a good job of exploring a lot of negative parts of life. I feel that his poetry at least compared to Hughes is better at capturing specific vignettes but I feel that I enjoyed these vignettes a lot. After over a month of not really going back through the poetry one poem about a lynching still sits with me. It shoots back to me whenever I’m driving home from work, washing my hands, or just going to sleep. I think this collection was worth reading if only for “The Lynching”