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Blues for Momma and other low down stuff. / By John Raven.

LIBRA PS3568.A83 B6
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LIBRA - Rare PS3568.A83 B6 1971 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Raven, J. E. (John Earle)
Contributor:
Broadside Press, publisher.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Poetry.
African Americans.
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
31 pages ; 15 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Detroit, Broadside Press 1971.
Contents:
Assailant
Reptile
The Roach
An Inconvenience
Blues for Momma
Gin
Sunday Go to Meetin' Folk
Epitaph for a Badman
"Cool" to Gene
Dear John Letter
Broke
The Mornin' After
Perfume
Visitor
Thoughts of a Best Man While Standing Up for a Pal and Gal
G.(.
Blues Singers
To Mick who Sometimes Turns a Trick
To Mr. Clean and His Friends
Before Lovin
Sexpot
One of Them There School Teachers
Under Fire
Blue John
Funky Marie
To Caspar the Friendly Ghost
To Yooglee
To a Disease Breaker
The E.O. Blues
From a Fellow who's been out Drinking with the Boys Till 2 AM
Rolled
Pot Smokin' Blues
Duty for a Beauty
Blues Get Away
Beau Brumell
The Blues is a Woman
Rot-Gut Whiskey
Signifyin
Fence Straddler
Chilly Willie
Keep Away from the Evil Gal
O.D.er
"Ticket" Sellin
About June
Cruisin
Evening Rush-Hour in Mid-July
Names
To a Detractor
Tax Increase.
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".
ISBN:
0910296545
OCLC:
127845

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