Dynamite Voices I: Black Poets Of The 1960s (Broadside Critics Series)
Detroit: Broadside Press, (1971). Stiff Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo (5.5 x 8.5 inches). Pp. 92. Edited by James A. Emanuel. Two bibliographies of Black poets. With a list of publisher's titles on inside covers. Bound in printed stiff paper wraps. Laid in are a clipping of a contemporary review from the Washington Post and a printed order form that mimics the front cover. Offsetting to inside front cover and half-title due to newspaper clipping; a trifle rubbing to edges of cover. Withal, a bright, fresh copy. Near Fine. Item #5381
A particularly scarce title from Dudley Randall's Broadside Press. From the early 1960s-on, Broadside was a vital outlet for African American poets cultivated by Randall to express a Black aesthetic - vernacular but not sloppy, eschewing all that is false in pursuit of expression of the Black experience. According to Nikki Giovanni, “Broadside was neither mother nor father of the poetry movement, but it was certainly midwife."
Price: $125.00