The back door. / Philip M. Royster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royster, Philip M., 1943-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Third World Press 1971.

Contents:

to spring (testimony of a dying negro)

death is the shattering of continuities

nation cookin

invitation to the president

racial disease

trick it out and sell it (for no sisters)

in love

now i get it

come on brother, naturally

ritual of revelations

aphrodisiac (for brothers with sexual hangups)

mythic dreams

for too few moments

to my baby

i know

What's the cheapest commodity

this is a myth, yall

step on the gas

black opportunity

Father

the back door.

Notes:

"Thanks to Brother Omar Lama for the cover."--T.p. verso.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is "First Edition First Printing".

Other Format:

Online version: Royster, Philip M., 1943- Back door.

OCLC:

484253