Songs of Jamaica Theatre Communications Group From British high society to

From British high society to the South of France

I know that I am a gay man

the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series

Upon its initial release

Songs of Jamaica Theatre Communications Group From British high society toSongs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a pioneering collection of verse written in Jamaican Patois, the first of its kind. As a committed leftist, McKay was a keen observer of the Black experience in the Caribbean, the American South, and later in New York, where he gained a reputation during the Harlem Renaissance for celebrating the resilience