Buenos Aires: Editorial Pleamar, (1946).
Price: $800.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Ravenet. Octavo. 324pp. Frontispiece portrait of Ballagas. Text in Spanish and English. Some foxing on the boards, very good in very good dustjacket with rubbing and moderate chipping at the extremities. A survey of Black poetry in the Western Hemisphere organized by country. Inscribed by the editor to Dorothy Feldman Hart at Syracuse University, who wrote on Afro-Cuban poetry and Caribbean literature: "Para la senorita Dorothy Feldman, cas sincera estimacion, Emilio Ballagas Nuevo York, juli 1947." Also laid in is an envelope with Ballagas's calling card, mailed to Feldman from Havana in 1952. While North American poets get relatively short shrift (James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, as well as poems about Blacks by Whitman and Longfellow), there are interesting sections on various South American and island poets. Edited and with contributions by Ballagas, an important Cuban poet. Very scarce inscribed.
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