[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GRAHAM, Le (AKA Ahmed Akinwole Alhamisi)

Broadside: The Black Narrator (At a Symposium for Afro-Americans)

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1966 [but 1967]. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in white on black (recto), and black on white (verso), measuring 19.75cm x 27.75cm (7 5/8" x 10 7/8"). A Fine copy.

Single poem from Alhamisi's 1966 chapbook of the same name, distributed by the Detroit-based Vaughn's Bookstore, who were specialists in Afro-American history. Alhamisi was a prominent voice in the Black Arts Movement, guest editing publications like Black Dialogue and the Journal of Black Poetry, and a poet whose use of Islamic iconography and Muslim themes would influence a host of lesser-known writers the movement would produce. He was also notably outspoken regarding his opposition to Black Arts writers having their work published by white publishing houses. Issued as Broadside No.17 by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series.

Price: $75.00

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