My blackness is the beauty of this land / Lance Jeffers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffers, Lance.

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.

Genre:

Poetry.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (autograph) (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)

Jeffers, Lance (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Mich. : Broadside Press, 1970.

Contents:

I Sing My People

My Blackness is the Beauty of This Land

Black Soul of the Land

Human Life

Cruelty

Humiliation

Children and a Fetus

Tearsplotches for My Childen

Let My Last Breath be Immortal Sandals

Poetry

So Deep in Rivers of that Stromsberg Time

The Song

The Unkown

Man with a Furnace in His Hand

My Girl in a Georgia Town

Homecoming

No One Else

Prison

Black Man in a New Day

When She Spoke of God

The Afroamerican Face

The Night Rains Hot Tar

A Strange Black Woman speaks of Cheyney

The Rocks My People Threw

Death of America

Vietnam: I Need More Than This Crust of Salt.

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".

Banks Collection copy inscribed "To Joanna Banks with warm regards - Lance Jeffers".

Banks Collection copy has marginal marks.

Banks Collection copy has faded typewritten poem ([1] page) "What man sweet with the ghetto's stink" inscribed "With warm regards to Joanna - Lance" laid in.

Banks Collection copy has autograph of Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Jeffers, Lance. My blackness is the beauty of this land.

ISBN:

0910296286 :

9780910296281

OCLC:

128510