Publisher's Synopsis
Bandanna Ballads is a collection of poems written by Howard Weeden, an American poet and author. The book includes her most famous work, Shadows on the Wall, which portrays the lives of African Americans in the South during the late 19th century. Weeden's poems are written in dialect, capturing the rhythms and nuances of Southern speech. The themes of the poems are varied, ranging from love and family to the struggles of everyday life. Weeden's writing is characterized by its empathy and understanding of the African American experience, making her work an important contribution to American literature. The book is a window into a world that has long since passed, but whose legacy continues to shape American society today.1899. (Maria) Howard Weeden, using her largely self-taught talents with brush and pen, made a unique contribution to an era in the history of the South, with faithfulness to fact and with respect and dignity to the individuals recorded. Harris writes in the introduction to Bandanna Ballads, The art with which the facts are set forth is so felicitous in its touch, so faithful and so informing, that it goes deeper than character and individuality; it revives and resurrects the period; in some mysterious way, it restores the atmosphere and color of the time. And each portrait stands out as a little masterpiece, harmonious, powerful, charged with feeling, and illuminated by the imagination that makes its creations more real than life itself. Contains 23 dialect poems, ballads and portraits of African-American folks of the Old South.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
