A rock against the wind: black love poems; an anthology. / Edited with an introduction by Lindsay Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Lindsay, 1942- compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Love poetry, American.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 172 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973.

Contents:

I. The Joys of Love

II. A Hymn to Black Men and Women

III. To Be a Woman

IV. Advice/Wisdom

V. Love is Hell

VI. Revenge, Regret, Rejection

VII. Seduction

VIII. Reflections on Love Lost

IX. Love and Death

X. For Love to Survive.

Notes:

Jacket design by Livia Scott.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. inscription: "Especially for Clinton. Love, Lindsay 12/21/73".

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

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0396068251

OCLC:

773470