Celebrations : a new anthology of Black American poetry / compiled and edited by Arnold Adoff ; introduced by Quincy Troupe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adoff, Arnold, compiler, editor.

Troupe, Quincy, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Follett Publishing Company, 1977.

Contents:

The Idea of Ancestry

Lineage

The Southern Road

Where Is the Black Community?

Young Soul

True Love

Myself When I Am Real

Make Music with Your Life

For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children

A Poem for Heroes

Shade

For Each of You.

Notes:

"This anthology presents 240 poems by 85 Black American poets of this century ... The poems are organized into twelve sections. Each has a theme and flow that holds the work together."--Preface.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0695806998 :

069540699X

OCLC:

3892221