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Oct 10, 2007 · His satirical poems reflect the influence of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, but their point and pith reveal Davis’s distinctive vision as he made light of African Americans’ faults and foibles. Arguably Davis achieves his most distinctive voice in his blues and jazz-inspired poems.
Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist, poet, political and labor movement activist, and businessman. Davis began his career writing for African American newspapers in Chicago.
In Hawaii, Davis raised his five children where, instead of the racial and social polarity of post-war American, he experienced the cultural diversity that derived from the mix of Whites, Blacks, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Samoans, Tongans, and Hawaiians.
Frank Marshall Davis's poetry "not only questioned social ills in his own time but also inspired Blacks in the politically charged 1960s," according to John Edgar Tidwell in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Frank Marshall Davis's poetry "not only questioned social ills in his own time but also inspired Blacks in the politically charged 1960s," according to John Edgar Tidwell in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Sometimes likened to poets such as Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, and...
As with his earlier volume, this book presents a strident critique of racism. The title poem, a “docudrama” in free verse and prose, is an attack against Jim Crow laws. Between 1935 and 1947, Davis was executive editor of the Associated Negro Press in Chicago.
During the Depression and World War II, Frank Marshall Davis was arguably one of the most distinctive poetic voices confronting W. E. B Du Bois's profound metaphor of African American double consciousness.
