Jimmy's blues and other poems / James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Nikky Finney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.

Contributor:

Finney, Nikky, writer of introduction.

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

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions--Poetry.

African Americans.

African American gay men--Poetry.

African American gay men.

Oppression (Psychology)--Poetry.

Oppression (Psychology).

Homosexuality--Poetry.

Homosexuality.

Interpersonal relations--Poetry.

Interpersonal relations.

Poverty--Poetry.

Poverty.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 94 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, 2014.

Contents:

Jimmy's Blues. Staggerlee wonders. Song (for Skip) Munich, Winter 1973 (for U.S.) The giver (for Berdis) 3:00 a.m. (for David) The darkest hour. Imagination. Confession. Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne) Some days (for Paula) Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico) Christmas card. A lady like landscapes (for Simone Signoret) Guilt, Desire and Love. Death is easy (for Jefe) Mirrors (for David) A Lover's Question. Inventory/On Being 52. Amen.

Other Poems. Gypsy. Son For The Shepherd Boy. For A. For EARL. Untitled. BALLAD (for Yoran)

Notes:

"Text design by Gabi Anderson and Ruth Maassen."

"Jacket design: Bob Kosturko."

"We have honored James Baldwin's own original typographical and grammatical preferences in this volume, both in presenting the poems from 'Jimmy's Blues' exactly as they were originally printed and in the poems taken from the privately printed, limited-edition volume, 'Gypsy,' as Baldwin had determined shortly before his death ..."--A Note from the Publisher.505

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

9780807084861

0807084867

OCLC:

852457595