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by James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Maya Angelou; Henry Louis Gates (Editor)

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James Weldon Johnson was a leading figureof the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered AfricanAmericans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum ofstruggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebratedworks, inspirational sermons of African American preachers arereimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendideloquence of the spirituals. This classic collection includes 'ListenLord A Prayer,' 'The Creation,' 'The Prodigal Son,' 'Go DownDeath A Funeral Sermon,' 'Noah Built the Ark,' 'The Crucifixion,''Let My People Go,' and 'The Judgment Day.'

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James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals. This classic collection includes "Listen Lord - A Prayer,"  "The Creation,"  "The Prodigal Son," "Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon," "Noah Built the Ark," "The Crucifixion," "Let My People Go," and "The Judgment Day."

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James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God?s Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals. This classic collection includes ?Listen Lord?A Prayer,? ?The Creation,? ?The Prodigal Son,? ?Go Down Death?A Funeral Sermon,? ?Noah Built the Ark,? ?The Crucifixion,? ?Let My People Go,? and ?The Judgment Day.?

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Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the spirituals. This classic collection includes "Listen Lord (A Prayer)," "The Creation," "The Prodigal Son," "Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon)," "Noah Built the Ark," "The Crucifixion," "Let My People Go," and "The Judgment Day."

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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The first edition of God's Trombones was published by Viking Press, New York, in 1927. The original cover art and drawings were by Aaron Douglas, and the letting by C.B. Falls. 


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  • Title God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
  • Author James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Maya Angelou; Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publication date 2008-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143105411 / 0143105418
  • Weight 0.18 lbs (0.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.14 x 0.26 in (19.71 x 13.06 x 0.66 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Mainline
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008008886
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.52

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James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University--experiences recorded in his autobiography, Along This Way. Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Black Manhattan, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.

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