George Horton (Books)

George Horton Books

George Horton served as an American diplomat, holding consular posts in Greece and the Ottoman Empire. His extensive experience in Smyrna, particularly during periods of intense conflict and transition, provided him with a unique vantage point. Through his seminal work, "The Blight of Asia," Horton offers a powerful, firsthand account of the systematic ethnic cleansing and devastation preceding and during the Great Fire of Smyrna. His writing is characterized by personal memoir and eyewitness testimony, though it has faced scrutiny for its perceived anti-Turkish sentiment.

Minor Notes, Volume 1

208 pages
8 hours of reading

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The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith A Penguin Classic Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As Minor Notes clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous. The poets featured in Volume 1 are George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld Grimké.