New York: International Publishers, -1969.
Price: $25.00
Softcover. First edition, paperback issue. Edited with an Introduction by Clarence Major. Octavo. 156pp. Pictorial wrappers. Former owner's neat ink name on front flyleaf; a very good copy with light tanning at extremities of covers, one page of text has a small, faint soil spot, else the printed text is fresh and clean. Wrappered issue of this anthology of Black poetry, issued as New World Paperbacks NW-102, and stating 'First Edition' on copyright page. An anthology of 76 Afro-American poets, edited by African-American poet Clarence Major with an eleven-page introduction. Includes contributions by Ed Bullins, Stanley Crouch, Sam Cornish, Nikki Giovanni, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Bob Kaufman, Al Young, Quincy Troupe, Eugene Redmond, LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Victor Hernandez Cruz, Audre Lorde, Larry Neal et al. Contributions by seventy-six poets, many of which are first appearances in print, as well as biographical information about each poet.
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