Our business in the streets; Black poetry. / By Jon Eckels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckels, Jon.

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:

32 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Broadside Press 1971.

Contents:

Introduction / Jon's Words

Liberation Application

My Kindred Soul (Sister)

The Name Dropper "In the still of the Night" (For the Five Satins and all the Rest)

Just Like You

When Ancestors Worship?

Being Black in America

Our Uncommon Love (Sister/Love)

To Gwen, with Love

Mass Media's Message

Go'n!

Jr. Highs

I've been working on a new dictionary based on Real Life

To Carol

U.S. of Africa

For Charlie Mae

Education (for the Situation)

Lynsong

Black is the Color

A New Year Wish

A.B.C. of Re-al-i-ty

You Are Not, To Me, A "Queen" (For Beautiful Black Women)

For Slaves

Arms: For Joy.

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 January 1971".

ISBN:

0910296316 :

OCLC:

199716