Poems of Black Africa / edited and with an introduction by Wole Soyinka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Soyinka, Wole, editor, writer of introduction.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 378 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

Contents:

I. Alien Perspective

II. Ancestors and Gods

III. Animistic Phases

IV. Black Thoughts

V. Captivity

VI. Compatriot

VII. Cosmopolis

VIII. Early Passage

IX. Ethics, Mores, Abstractions: Man, the Philosopher

X. Exile

XI. Indictment and Summons

XII. Land and Liberty

XIII. Man in Nature

XIV. Mating Cry

XV. Mortality

XVI. Pet's Passage

XVII. Praise-Singer and Critic

XVIII. Prayers, Invocations

XIX. Miscellany

Notes:

"First American edition 1975."

Includes index.

"Cover design by Sigrid Spaeth."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy 2: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0809077477 :

0809013762

OCLC:

1230695