Children of empire / by Robert Chrisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chrisman, Robert.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 73 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Sausalito, CA : Black Scholar Press, 1981.

Contents:

I. The Metal Heart. The Buried Wings; First Strike; A Dream of Lions; The Birds; The Metal Heart; Prometheus in Chrome; In This Abyss of Time

II. Orpheus. Trout; The Growing Night; Carnival I; Giraffe; Orpheus

III. A Journey Into Genesis. A Journey into Geneis; A Memory of Water; Morning; For Nikki B.; Gacela; Swan Lake; City Lights; Blue Moon; Gardens II; Gardens III; On Leonardo da Vinci; The Great Fugue

IV. Children of Empire. Children of Empire; Canto Che; The Leopard; Negritude: Age 7; Sonnets for Alice; At Maya and Paul's; Black Ronin; After Walt Whitman; Songs for A.M.; Straight No Chaser; Seascape I; Seascape II; Seascape III; Seascape IV; Quebrada; Visions; Philoctetes; Carnival II.

Notes:

Book Design: Robert Chrisman. Cover Art and Interior Drawings: Eileen A. Nelson.

"'Children of Empire' has been set in 12/14 Goudy Old Style by Barlow Printing, Inc."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".

Banks Collection copy is "First Printing 1981".

ISBN:

0933296029

9780933296022

0933296037

9780933296039

OCLC:

7414273