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The dead lecturer; poems / by LeRoi Jones.
LIBRA - Rare PS3552.A583 D4 1964 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
- Series:
- Evergreen book ; E-386.
- An Evergreen book ; E-386
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Grove Press, Inc., 1964.
- Contents:
- As a possible lover
- Balboa, The Entertainer
- A contract. (for the destruction and rebuilding of Paterson
- This is the clearing I once spoke of
- A Poem for Neutrals
- An Agony. As Now
- The pressures
- A poem for Willie Best
- Joseph to His Brothers
- Short Speech to My Friends
- The end of man is his beauty
- The politics of rich painters
- Titles
- Style
- Sex, like desire
- The invention of comics
- A Poem for Democrats
- The Measure of Memory (The Navigator
- Footnote to a Pretentious Book
- Rhythm & Blues
- For Crow Jane (Mama Death
- Crow Jane's Manner
- Crow Jane in High Society
- Crow Jane the Crook
- The dead lady canonized
- Duncan spoke of a process
- Audubon, Drafted
- If into Love the Image Burdens
- I Substitute for the Dead Lecturer
- Black Dada Nihilismus
- A Hip Kitty
- A Guerrilla Handbook
- Green Lantern's Solo
- The dance
- War Poem
- Political Poem
- Snake Eyes
- A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
- Dichtung
- Valery as Dictator
- The Liar.
- Notes:
- Cover photograph by Leroy McLucas.
- Published under the author's earlier name: LeRoi Jones.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- OCLC:
- 711112
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