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Words in the mourning time : poems / by Robert Hayden.
LIBRA Rare PS3515.A9363 W6 1970 Banks copy
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3515.A9363 W6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor)
- Hayden, Robert Earl (autograph)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : October House Inc., : 1970.
- Contents:
- One. Sphinx; The Dream; "'Mystery Boy' Looks for Kin in Nashville"; The Broken Dark; The Mirages; Soledad; Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
- Two. Locus; On Lookout Mountain; Kodachromes of the Island; Zeus over Redeye; Unidentified Flying Object
- Three words of the mourning time. El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz; Words in the Mourning Time
- Four. Monet's "Waterlilies"; The Lions; October; The Return; "Lear is Gay"; A Plague of Starlings.
- Notes:
- Photograph by Timothy D. Franklin.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is paperback edition with "OH 34" printed on front cover.
- ISBN:
- 0807901598
- 0807901601
- OCLC:
- 13292443
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