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Against the blues; poems / by Alvin Aubert.

LIBRA PS3551.U24 A7
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LIBRA - Rare PS3551.U24 A7 1972 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Aubert, Alvin.
Contributor:
Broadside Press, publisher.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Broadside poets
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--Poetry.
African Americans.
American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)
Aubert, Alvin (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Edition:
First Edition.
Place of Publication:
Detroit, Broadside Press 1972.
Contents:
Bessie
Bessie Smith's Funeral
Whispers in a Country Church
In a Washateria
De Profundis
L'Ouverture Fort de Joux
Economics
In a Foxhole
Garden Scene
Backstage
Photo Album
Last Will and Testament
Codicil
Addenda to an Unfinished Finished Poem
Three for the Old Man
Death in the Family
Uncle Bill
Granny Dean
Black Girl
Dispatcher
For John Moses/Pfc
Nat Turner in the Clearing
To a Younger Poet.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy inscribed "To Joanna Banks - it was pleasure meeting you - Al Aubert 5/5/77".
Banks Collection copy is "First Edition First Printing".
ISBN:
0910296731 :
OCLC:
357429

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