Embryo. / Quincy Troupe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troupe, Quincy.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--African American authors.

Poetry.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

African American authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Troupe, Quincy (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 56 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, Barlenmir House 1972.

Contents:

Rhythm. Come Sing a Song; Elegy for Wes; South African Bloodstone; Black Star, Black Woman; You Come to Me; Invocation; Profilin, A Rap/Poem; The Scag Ballet; Flies; Midtown Traffic; Pushing Back the Dark; Chicago

Blood-Rivers. Painting in the Head; A Sense of Coolness; The Syntax of the Mind Grips; Weather Report in Lincoln Nebraska; White Weekend; Woke Up Crying the Blues; Broken Beauty Queen; Vision; The Earthquake of Peru; We Sat on the Edge; And These Words are Yellow; In Texas Grass; Three for the Biafran War; Red Bone Pot Lunch; Painting Pictures; Blood-Rivers

Embryo. In Seventy-five Syllables; In the Manner of Rabearivello; Dream Poem/Song; Rain/Time; Dream/Dance; Ellipse; Birds Fly without Motion to the Summit; Poem from the Third-Eye; Beneath the Bluest Sea; Eye Walk the Ways of the Poet; Flute Song/Sun Song; Embryo.

Notes:

Cover Design by Steffan.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has poem "Winter Night Lyric" by Quincy Troupe laid in.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "To Joanna Banks. To a very lovely & beautiful woman, with de sparkle of eyes and spirit. It was brief but beautiful. Peace, and Beautiful moments to you. Quincy Troupe 3/31/73 Washington, D.C.".

ISBN:

087929020X

OCLC:

571919