Accession number
PML 198576
Creator
Alhamisi, Ahmed Akinwole.
Published
Detroit : [The author], [1966]
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
"Notes on the poems: Partly because of voices & partly because of memories i have recreated black primitive thoughts (which i feel is the only way to reflect the real me) known as poems ... for reasons of which Afro-americans are hip ... (?) / The chronological order is only as strict as my ever venturing mind. / le g. '66."
Printed dedication on page [3]: "Baudelaire spoke to the French / Chekhov to the Russians / Nietzsche to the Germans / Hemingway to Anglo-Saxon Americans. They knew who they were writing for. So do I: i speak to Black people (in America, in Africa, Asia & Latin America) so / This book is for African-Americans & other people of color...."
Price printed on front cover: $1.00.
Printed dedication on page [3]: "Baudelaire spoke to the French / Chekhov to the Russians / Nietzsche to the Germans / Hemingway to Anglo-Saxon Americans. They knew who they were writing for. So do I: i speak to Black people (in America, in Africa, Asia & Latin America) so / This book is for African-Americans & other people of color...."
Price printed on front cover: $1.00.
Description
16 pages ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Gwendolyn Brooks has marked three titles in the table of contents: The telephone call; s₃ong of a tortured lover; Scream & shout songs of revolution.
Provenance
From the library of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Binding
Illustrated cream wrappers, printed in black and red, with a design after Glanton Dowdell.
Classification
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