Songs from an Afro/phone; new poems / by Eugene B. Redmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redmond, Eugene.

Contributor:

Harrison, Lucy B., illustrator.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)

Redmond, Eugene (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

63 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

East St. Louis, Ill., Black River Writers 1972.

Contents:

Rite #1: Songs from an Afro/Phone

Rite #2: Lyrics and Lines of Blood from a Black Painting.

Notes:

Cover photography: Joseph Harrison, Carolyn Vestal, Johnny Woods. Cover Collage: Helen Songer. Cover concept: Patricia Woods. Conver: Design: Eugene Redmond.

"Specially commissioned drawings by Lucy Harrison: 'Afro-Phone Head,' 'Afro Dancers,' 'Black Woman with Telephone,' 'Two Dancers,' 'Boy Sitting with Books'."--Acknowledgments.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy inscribed "To Joanna - Strength of the Sisterhood. Long Life - God bless your struggle for dignity & may the forces from way way back inspire your creative efforts - Peace, Power - Vision. Eugene Redmond 31 Mar '73".

OCLC:

800195