[OWEN DODSON] Sorrow is the Only Faithful One (The Life of Owen Dodson) 1993 1st Printing

Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson

by James V Hatch

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. xviii, 362, [2] pp. Bound in full light blue cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Includes bibliography and index. Fine bright, crisp copy in Fine dust jacket.

Owen Vincent Dodson (November 28, 1914 – June 21, 1983) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright. He was one of the leading African-American poets of his time, associated with the generation of black artists and poets following the Harlem Renaissance such as The Harlem Book of the Dead (1978) a collaboration with photographer James Van Der Zee.