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Black poetry : a supplement to anthologies which exclude Black poets / edited by Dudley Randall.

Accession number
PML 198526
Published
Detroit, Michigan : Broadside Press, [1969]
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
First edition, second printing.
Description
48 pages ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Ink inscription on first flyleaf: "Lovingly to Gwen / from Dudley / July 1, 1970."
Provenance
Inscribed by the editor, contributing poet, and publisher, Dudley Randall, to Gwendolyn Brooks.
Summary
Because students at the University of Michigan complained that anthologies used in introductory poetry courses contained no Black poets, Broadside Press was asked to make a small collection. This booklet is a sampling of Black American poets, including poets of the Harlem Renaissance like Claude McKay and Jean Toomer, mature and established poets like Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and outstanding younger poets like Don L. Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti), Etheridge Knight, and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).
Binding
Black cloth-covered boards lettered in silver on front cover.
Classification
Department