A comprehensive volume of writings by a seminal figure in African American literature and culture. This year marks the centenary of Lift Every Voice and Sing , James Weldon Johnson’s most famous lyric, now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original presents all the poems from Johnson’s published works - Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), Gods Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935) - along with a number of previously unpublished poems.