Accession number
PML 198533
Creator
Giovanni, Nikki.
Published
New York : William Morrow & Company, 1970.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
Originally self-published by Giovanni in 1968 as two separate books: Black feeling, Black talk; and Black judgment.
Introduction to Black feeling, Black thought by Barbara Crosby, dated 1968.
With critical blurbs from 1969 on rear dust jacket by Julius Lester, Ron Welburn, and anonymous excerpts taken from Tuesday Magazine and Muhammad Speaks--all Black writers, reflective of Giovanni's stated intention in a letter to her editor Phil W. Petrie, which is reproduced on the front dust jacket flap.
Photograph of the author on rear dust jacket flap by Chester Higgins, Jr.
Introduction to Black feeling, Black thought by Barbara Crosby, dated 1968.
With critical blurbs from 1969 on rear dust jacket by Julius Lester, Ron Welburn, and anonymous excerpts taken from Tuesday Magazine and Muhammad Speaks--all Black writers, reflective of Giovanni's stated intention in a letter to her editor Phil W. Petrie, which is reproduced on the front dust jacket flap.
Photograph of the author on rear dust jacket flap by Chester Higgins, Jr.
Description
[x], 98 pages ; 21.5 x 14.5 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the poet and publisher Dudley Randall to Gwendolyn Brooks: "To Gwendolyn, All best, from Dudley, 9-25-70." In red ink, Randall has added 'Dudley Randall Broadside Press' to the copyright page next to 'inquiries should be addressed to.' The same ink was apparently used to underline the sentence in Giovanni's letter to Phil Petrie, reproduced on the bookjacket flap: "Some folk will say that the poems are anti-white but that's not where I'm coming from." With a Kroch's & Brentano's price sticker adhered to the back of the jacket.
Provenance
From the library of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Binding
Black cloth, spine lettered in gold and coppery brown. Issued in photo-pictorial dust jacket, designed by Art Ritter.
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