Accession number
PML 198519
Creator
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000.
Published
Detroit : Broadside Press, [1970]
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
Second printing, February 1970.
"Riot...arises from the disturbances in Chicago after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968."--Back cover.
A poem in three parts: Riot -- The third sermon on the warpland -- An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire.
"The first part of this poem was commissioned in April of 1968 by Don L. Lee [a.k.a. Haki R. Madhubuti], an editor of the Chicago magazine Black Expression"--Verso of title page.
Jeff Donaldson's painting "Allah Shango" is reproduced as the frontispiece, and captioned: "This painting was the Purchase Award winner at the exhibit Black Expressions '69 at the Southside Community Art Center, Chicago."
Printed dedication on page [5]: "For Dudley Randall, a giant in our time."
The verso of the frontispiece is lettered in white and printed on black paper; it bears a quotation from Henry Miller's Sunday after the war (1944), which begins: "It would be a terrible thing for Chicago if this black fountain of life should suddenly erupt."
Price on cover: $1.00.
"Riot...arises from the disturbances in Chicago after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968."--Back cover.
A poem in three parts: Riot -- The third sermon on the warpland -- An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire.
"The first part of this poem was commissioned in April of 1968 by Don L. Lee [a.k.a. Haki R. Madhubuti], an editor of the Chicago magazine Black Expression"--Verso of title page.
Jeff Donaldson's painting "Allah Shango" is reproduced as the frontispiece, and captioned: "This painting was the Purchase Award winner at the exhibit Black Expressions '69 at the Southside Community Art Center, Chicago."
Printed dedication on page [5]: "For Dudley Randall, a giant in our time."
The verso of the frontispiece is lettered in white and printed on black paper; it bears a quotation from Henry Miller's Sunday after the war (1944), which begins: "It would be a terrible thing for Chicago if this black fountain of life should suddenly erupt."
Price on cover: $1.00.
Description
22 pages : frontispiece ; 21.6 x 14 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
This copy is inscribed on the title-page: For D.H. / Sincerely, / Gwendolyn / Brooks. Includes Melhem's marginal notations on several pages, including brief notes indicating Brooks's references or alternate word choice, which she indicates with 'GB:,' and numbering for stanzas and lines, occasionally noting the scansion.
Provenance
D.H. Melhem (1926-2013).
Binding
Wrappers designed by Cledie Taylor, with a black front cover, title lettered in red inside a white circle, roughly-edged, as if it has been shot through or torn; and a white back cover, lettered in black and red, with a photograph of Brooks by Roy Lewis.
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