Frank S. Horne is an important minor voice of the Harlem Renaissance whose reputation rests primarily upon a group of award-winning poems he published in the Crisis in 1925. His success during this period links him to New Negro Renaissance poets, but his poems are generally more personal and traditional in concern than many of those of the other young writers of the 1920s. While several of these younger artists wrote of the New Negro, his atavistic connections to the deep South and to Africa, Horne focused on death, illness, and a crisis of faith shared by many white writers of the early twentieth century. A northerner who went against the pattern of migration by going to live in the South, Horne wrote poetry early in his life before becoming a physician and an administrator with the United States Housing Authority in Washington, D.C., and later in New...