Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems 1920 is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published toward the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems is the first of McKays collections to appear in the United States. As a committed leftist McKaywho grew up in Jamaicacaptures the life of African Americans from a realists point of view lamenting their exposure to poverty racism and violence while celebrating their resilience and cultural achievement. Several years before T. S. Eliots The Waste Land 1922 and William Carlos Williams Spring and All 1923 modernist poet Claude McKay troubles the traditional symbol of springtime to accommodate the hardships of an increasingly industrialized world. In Spring in New Hampshire the poet gives voice to a desperate laborer for whom the beauty and harmony of the season of rebirth are not only sickening but altogether inaccessible Too green the springing April grass Too blue the silverspeckled sky For me to linger here alas While happy winds go laughing by Wasting the golden hours indoors Washing windows and scrubbing floors. A master of traditional forms McKay brings his experience as a black man to bear on a poem otherwise dedicated to descriptions of natural beauty challenging the very tradition his language and style invoke. In The Lynching he calls on the reader to witness the brutality of American racism while exposing the complicity of those who would look without feeling Soon the mixed crowds came to view The ghastly body swaying in the sun The women thronged to look but never a one Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue... As children dance around the victims body lynchers that were to be McKay raises a terrible timeless question how long will such violence endureSince our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover al