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Harlem gallery. Book I, The Curator / by M. B. Tolson ; with an introduction by Karl Shapiro.
Van Pelt Library PS3539.O334 H3 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolson, Melvin B., 1898-1966
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Description and travel--Poetry.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Lask Poetry Collection.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1965.
- Contents:
- Alpha. The Harlem Gallery, an Afric pepper bird
- Beta. O Tempora
- Gamma. The mecca Art is a babel city in the people's Shinar
- Delt. Doubt not
- Epsilon. The idols of the tribe
- Zeta. My thoughts tilted at the corners like long Nepalese eyes
- Eta. Her neon sign blared two Harlem blocks
- Theta. In the chateau en Espagne of Vanity
- Iota. The hour with the red letter stumbles in
- Kappa. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Delaporte III
- Lambda. From the mouth of the Harlem Gallery
- Mu. Hideho Heights
- Nu. Rufino Laughlin
- Xi. Hideho Heights
- Omnicron. "Life and Art," said Doctor Nkomo, "begat incestuously
- Pi. Omega is not I like
- Rho. New Year's Day
- Sigma. On a red letter day
- Tau. The MS., Harlem Vignettes
- Upsilon. My talent
- Phi. Harlem Vignettes read
- Chi. Despite his caricatures
- Psi. Black Boy
- Omega. Black Boy, White Boy.
- Notes:
- Poem was originally conceived as five volume history of the black man in America. Tolson died before the volume was completed.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy volume 1 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "Second printing August, 1965".
- OCLC:
- 291116
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