[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] JONES, LeRoi (AKA Amiri Baraka)

Broadside: A Poem for Black Hearts

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in black inside a ruled border on white cardstock, measuring 16.75cm x 18cm (6 5/8" x 11"). A Fine copy.

First separate printing of Baraka's much-anthologized elegy for Malcolm X, originally printed in the September, 1965 issue of Negro Digest. The poem was included in Dudley Randall's 1967 collection For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and the Death of Malcolm X (1967), as well as Jones's 1969 collection Black Magic. An early publication of Dudley Randall's Broadside Press (Broadside No.7), which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. DACE Eb6. 89410.

Price: $150.00

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