I am a Black woman / Mari Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Mari, 1919-2017.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Lask Poetry Collection.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

95 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970.

Contents:

I am a Black Woman

If there be sorrow

I who would encompass millions

The silver cell

Conflict

To Mother and Steve

I can no longer sing

Thin-sliced

Here-hold my hand

into blackness softly

In the Wake of My Departed

hegira

Marrow of my bone

I am not lazy

Where have you gone

if i had a gun that would shoot

And the hotel room held only him

escape

To a Child that was

Uhuru Überalles!

Apologia

Grits and Rice Grains

The Friday Ladies of the Pay Envelope

Rout

The Emancipation of George-Hector

The 7:25 Trolley

When in Rome

beA Trice does the dinner

The Alarm Clock

early in the mornin'

The Great Civil Rights Law

status symbol

Vive Noir!

things IS changing

The insurgent

The rebel

Black jam for dr. negro

Flames

Princeling

My Man Let Me Pull Your Coat

A good assassination should be quiet

eyes gentled at the corners so

The Young BlackandBeautiful in Pursuit of Ancient Freedomdreams

Uhuru

Remembered Rhythms

Whisper Together Brethren

Brother ... the twilight

Speak the Truth to the People

Who Can be Born Black.

Notes:

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 1971

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is a "Morrow Paperback Edition".

Banks Collection copy has marginal marks.

ISBN:

068830494xX

OCLC:

112735