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Paul Breman and the Heritage Collection of Black Literature and Culture Paul Breman and the Heritage Collection of Black Literature and Culture paul breman (1931–2008) was born in the Langston Hughes, 1902–1967 Netherlands and read English at the University of Lament for Dark Peoples and Other Poems Amsterdam. As a young man, he loved blues music, [Amsterdam: Jeroen Driessen], 1944 [i.e. 1945] and from this, as he later put it, “theorized the No. 1 of 50 copies printed on special paper existence of black poetry, thinking that any group comfortable with the strict poetic discipline of the Margaret Walker, 1915–1998 blues just had to produce more ‘formal’ poetry at a diferent stage of development.” He pursued its For My People study, encouraged by a meeting with the Dutch Foreword by Stephen Vincent Benét scholar Rosey Pool, long a champion of black New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942 poetry, though the works Breman wanted to read were hard to come by. “At the end of the German Ellsworth McGranahan Keane, 1927–1997 occupation [of the Netherlands during the Second Ixion: Poems World War]”, he recalled, “someone in Amsterdam [Georgetown?] British Guiana: Master Printery, had printed a very handsome edition of some 1952 Langston Hughes poems – but he turned out to have very little else.” By 1952 Breman read the poets Countee Cullen, 1903–1946 Margaret Walker and “Shake” (for Shakespeare) Keane, and on his frst trip to London bought Te Black Christ and Other Poems Countee Cullen’s Te Black Christ and Langston Decorations by Charles Cullen Hughes’ Fields of Wonder. He was also able to obtain New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929 Peter Blackman’s My Song Is for All Men and Peter Abrahams’ rare book of poems, A Blackman Speaks Langston Hughes, 1902–1967 of Freedom! Fields of Wonder New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947 Paul Breman, 1931–2008 Peter Blackman, 1909–1993 Typed letter (carbon copy) to Rosey Pool, April 4, 1954 My Song Is for All Men London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1952 Rosey E. Pool, 1905–1971 Peter Abrahams, b. 1919 Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes Selected and introduced by Rosey E. Pool A Blackman Speaks of Freedom!: Poems Lympne, Kent: Hand and Flower Press, 1962 [Durban, South Africa: University Printing Works, 1940?] Dark Testament London: George Allen & Unwin, 1942 1 In 1948 breman made his frst translations of black Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917–2000 poetry, in the Dutch literary journal Podium. Tey A Street in Bronzeville were “dreadful”, he thought, “but the novelty factor New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945 carried them through”. In 1957–8 he and Rosey Pool combined their translations for a bilingual (English W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868–1963 and Dutch) anthology of black poetry, Ik zag hoe zwart ik was (I Saw How Black I Was). Te Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches By then, in 1953, Breman began a career as a London: Archibald Constable, 1905 bookseller, eventually specializing in antiquarian Selected Poems books. At the same time, he maintained a connec- Accra, Ghana: Ghana Universities Press, 1965 tion with black music, met visiting American musicians, and wrote articles and then books. Photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois during a visit to His Spirituals was published in 1958, and Blues in the Netherlands, September 1958 1961. In 1959 he moved to London, “where personal Photograph of Paul Breman (at podium) contact became easier and more frequent” with introducing W.E.B. Du Bois, September 1958 others in the feld, such as fellow collector Arthur Spingarn, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and the leading Paul Breman, 1931–2008 black intellectual and civil rights advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, with his wife, Shirley Graham, also an Typed letter (carbon copy) to W.E.B. Du Bois, author and activist. February 3, 1956 Shirley Graham, 1896–1977 Paul Breman, 1931–2008 Typed letter signed to Paul Breman, February 11, Spirituals: Noord-Amerikaanse 1956 geestelijke volksliederen Introduction, translation, and notes Paul Breman, 1931–2008 by Paul Breman Te Hague: Servire, 1958 Typed letter (carbon copy) with manuscript addition, to Shirley Graham (Mrs. W.E.B. Du Bois), Blues en andere wereldikje volksmuziek February 15, 1956 van de Noordamerikaanse neger Collected, introduced, and annotated by “Since 1947”, Breman wrote in his letter of February Paul Breman 3, 1956, “I have been specializing my English Te Hague: Servire, 1961 studies on Negro literature, U.S. mainly, now also West Indian, Brazilian, and African as far as Rosey E. Pool, 1905–1971 there are English or French writing authors. Tis Paul Breman, 1931–2008 specialization proved a bit difcult here in Holland, Ik zag hoe zwart ik was: verzen van where virtually no material is available. However, Noord-Amerikaanse negers I have managed quite well with a limited supply Edited by Rosey E. Pool and Paul Breman – which, afer all, suited my fnancial status more. Te Hague: Bert Bakker, 1958 Although I hope some day to be able to make my interest the subject of a thesis, all is merely a hobby – there is no sentimentality about the approach.” 2 From the middle of the 1950s Breman “had an Claude McKay, 1890–1948 ever-increasing amount of correspondence with Harlem Shadows: Te Poems of Claude McKay black writers in America, mostly those of the (“Morning Joy”, “Africa”) Harlem Renaissance”. Tis fowering of black urban With an introduction by Max Eastman culture, also known as the “New Negro Movement” New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922 afer Alain Locke’s 1925 anthology, reached its peak in the late 1920s, but some of its most important Sterling A. Brown, 1901–1989 fgures continued to produce, among them poets Arna Bontemps, Sterling Brown (Williams College Southern Road: Poems Class of 1922), Countee Cullen, William Waring Drawings by E. Simms Campbell Cuney, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. Most New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932 notable in the present collection of Breman papers are a series of letters, with various literary and Countee Cullen, 1903–1946 photographic material, exchanged with Langston Manuscript poems written in Sara Teasdale, Hughes – the man who “just was ‘Negro poetry’ Rivers to the Sea (1922), inscribed by Cullen to whenever that nebulous concept was mentioned his wife, Yolande (daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois): at home or abroad” – and a much larger fle of “Hoping that these ecstatic notes will tune her typescripts and manuscripts regarding Waring harp and set a song upon her lips” Cuney, whose poems Breman himself edited in a limited edition (Puzzles, 1960). Paul Breman, 1931–2008 Typed letter (carbon copy) to Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes, 1902–1967 January 10, 1954 Arna Bontemps, 1902–1973 Te Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949: An Anthology Langston Hughes, 1902–1967 Edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps Typescript poems Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949 Inscribed to Paul (Breman) by the author Alain Locke, 1885–1954 Typescript poem, “Te Backlash Blues” Inscribed to Paul (Breman) and dated Te New Negro: An Interpretation October 1966 by the author Edited by Alain Locke Book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss Photograph of Langston Hughes New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925 Inscribed by Hughes to Paul (Breman), February 25, 1954 James Weldon Johnson, 1871–1938 Typed letter signed, to Paul Breman, May 8, 1954 Te Book of American Negro Poetry Chosen and edited, with an essay on the Negro’s Typed letter signed, to Paul Breman, May 29, 1954 creative genius, by James Weldon Johnson Te Weary Blues New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922 Introduction by Carl Van Vechten New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 (1935 printing) Dust-jacket art by Miguel Covarubbias Te Dream Keeper and Other Poems Illustrations by Helen Sewell New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954 3 William Waring Cuney, 1906–1976 Audre Lorde, George R. Bell, and James W. Tompson) were invited to provide, to accompany Puzzles their poems, a “statement” about their reasons Selected and introduced by Paul Breman and aims in writing, and the place of race in their Woodcuts by Ru van Rossem writing and thought. Smaller selections from the Utrecht: De Roos, 1960 work of seven other poets (Willard Moore, James A. One of 175 copies; out of series, Emanuel, Russell Atkins, Raymond Patterson, Percy specially printed for Paul Breman Johnston, Allen Polite, and Charles Anderson) were Selection of typescript poems, included without statements. Breman later felt that signed and dated by Waring Cuney Russell Atkins should have been included among the “six”. None of these “had yet had a book of their Paul Breman, 1931–2008 own published, although one or two had small privately printed pamphlets. Tis remained the Typed letter (carbon copy) to Waring Cuney main aim of Heritage: to present new poets, May 18, 1954 give them a platform from which to take of. .” * Te Heritage Series of Black Poetry In May 1959 Paul Breman wrote to Waring Cuney: Edited and published by Paul Breman “For some time I have been thinking of issuing a London, 1962–1975 series of smallish well-printed books of poetry by U.S. Negro authors. I want to print Robert Hayden’s Heritage Black Poetry Pamphlets latest verse, Sterling Brown’s second book, reprint Edited and published by Paul Breman the George Moses Horton broadsides, and make London, 1993–2001 an anthology of the younger poets.” Having failed to interest major English publishers in Robert Hayden’s poetry, Breman decided to publish it * himself, thus beginning the Heritage Series of Although his focus was on black poetry, Paul Black Poetry. He chose the name Heritage because Breman’s collecting also embraced fction and “the poet is a bridge between past and present, and drama, music, broadsides, magazines and journals, also between present and future – he uses a heritage, recordings, and related reference works.
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