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Down Nigger paved streets / by William A. Thigpen, Jr. (1948-1971); introduction by Geneva Smitherman.
LIBRA PS3570.H45 D6
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LIBRA - Rare PS3570.H45 D6 1972 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thigpen, William A., 1948-1971.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Inner cities.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Inner cities--Michigan--Detroit--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 28 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Broadside Press 1972.
- Contents:
- The Mack Man
- Spring Fever
- Hind Sight I
- Peaches
- Gaming
- Delightful Lee
- Northern High
- Family Dinner
- Sisters
- Wintertime in the Ghetto
- Eros A La Soul
- Black Icarus
- Transcontinental Nigger
- People's Veto
- Two for the Book
- Balboa's Bastard Chlld
- A Prayer
- I Know You White Boy
- Nyro
- T. V. Images
- For Marlene
- Greasy Rider.
- Notes:
- Cover by Gerald Simmons/Ulozi.
- 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:
- 091029674X :
- OCLC:
- 309411
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