What critics said of
BLACK MAN'S VERSE
By Frank Marshall Davis
"Black Man's Verse unites sardonic realism and mysticism, a union here of cause and effect, not at all strange to any reader knowing Sandberg. Mr. Davis is embittered by American life, and at times seems to escape from it in dreams of Mandy Lou's loveliness, and of vestiges from an earlier, exotic Africa . . . The book's contribution is in its realism."
Sterling A. Brown, Opportunity
"No Negro poet — nor any white poet — has sung with as great force of the intellectual and spiritual bleakness of the black island which exists in dominantly white America. His singing is in a minor chord like music at a synagogue or keening at a wake."
Prof. C. E. Rogers, Kansas Industrialist
"Throughout he has stamped his own individuality in lines and frequently his experimental moods have caught the essence of an originality surcharged with a vigour of well rounded expression."
James O. Hopson, Crisis
"Frank Marshall Davis . . . has an etcher's touch and an acid bite to his vignettes of life that any 'proletarian poet' or Marxian critic might well envy and emulate . . . His social analysis is as accurate as his social description is trenchant."
Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke, Race, Summer, 1936
