Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land.

"When the sukebind was in bud, the orphaned Flora Poste, expensively, athletically and lengthily educated, descended on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. There were plenty of them - Judith, alone in her grief; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; Elfine, who needed a little polish; and, of course, Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw something nasty in the woodshed. And Flora felt it incumbent upon her to bring order into chaos. First published...

Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.

This selection of more than forty poems from a reading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.