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I didn't start out to be a poet / by Frank S. Jenkins.
LIBRA - Rare PS3560.E484 I17 1977 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Frank S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Poetry.
- African American men.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)
- Jenkins, Frank S. (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hollywood, Cal. : Shockley Press, 1977.
- Contents:
- Well, here I am again (childhood)
- As a child
- My world
- I used to always want to be white
- I went to a pretty school
- Gran'ma said
- I wish I was Bill
- The platypus
- The Do*Do bird
- Girls are silly
- Boys are stupid
- Girls are different from boys
- I wonder what it's like to die
- My father and me
- Well here I am again (revolution)
- The time was the early sixties
- This picture of myself
- Hey! Friend white boy!
- Black mac say
- White boy you can ask
- Last night
- Dear Ed
- Why?
- Dead letter
- Being hunted
- Slaves make masters
- I got sounds in my ears
- The first time I heard Coltrane
- They don't need you anymore
- There ain't gonna be
- No revolution tonight
- Well here I am again (later)
- The Company (A man is)
- I see you
- Message
- I try to think
- I think talking
- The circle
- Why am I waiting on this empty street?
- If I could just pay attention
- Listen
- Have you ever waved
- One works
- Where have all the poets gone?
- I got empathy
- I'm tired being black
- Poetry
- Wise sayings by older black men
- It's springtime in the garden of the morning of the world
- I am glad
- I look at my black lady in wonder
- I didn't start out to be a poet
- Well here I am again (now).
- Notes:
- "I wish to thank ... Charles Stokes, for the painting on the front cover and the interior illustrations, David Duncan, for the photograph on the back cover ..."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy inscribed "For Joanna Banks with many thanks & best wishes. Frank S. Jenkins 1/31/80".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Jenkins, Frank S. I didn't start out to be a poet.
- OCLC:
- 3707227
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