Accession number
PML 198520
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 of dust jacket.
A poem in three parts: Riot -- The third sermon on the warpland -- An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire.
Library's copy is the hardbound edition, which includes a 2-page facsimile following p. 22 of Brooks's manuscript for the poem 'An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire,' dated March 17, 18, 1968.
"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 is the only page in the book 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."
"Riot...arises from the disturbances in Chicago after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968."--Back of dust jacket.
A poem in three parts: Riot -- The third sermon on the warpland -- An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire.
Library's copy is the hardbound edition, which includes a 2-page facsimile following p. 22 of Brooks's manuscript for the poem 'An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire,' dated March 17, 18, 1968.
"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 is the only page in the book 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."
Description
[1]-22, [2] pages : frontispiece ; 22 x 14.5 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the verso of front fly-leaf: For Diana, / with warm regards / Sincerely, / Gwendolyn / Brooks. With Melhem's ownership inscription on front paste-down.
Provenance
D.H. Melhem (1926-2013).
Binding
Full white cloth-covered boards, title and author lettered in red, issued in black, white, and red dust jacket with blank white flaps and a photograph of the author by Roy Lewis printed on the rear dust jacket. Designed by Cledie Taylor.
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