I Speak

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Darlene Scriven and Gregory Lewis, Eds. Cover illustration by Wess Smith. 44 pp. 5.25" x 8.5" stapled illustrated wraps. VG+ (a touch of rubbing to covers, light soiling, bottom corner of opening pages creased).52 poems on Black power, Black beauty, and Black liberation, many from a female perspective, and 2 photos. Poems include "Black Woman" ("From my womb the race has come / And from my womb it must continue; / For I am Black and I am Woman"), "to Kayode" ("time and time and time and time / again / we say / black folks gotta git togetha / BELIEVE IT / when some devils bomb our children in a church in Alabama / we gotta CRY / and get MAD / and DEMAND justice / in BALTIMORE (and boston and Cleveland and Detroit and…"), and a wonderful poem "Nikki" about the poet Nikki Giovanni ("The Black princess be singing the blues like / Bessie, Dinah, and Billy / But her instruments are words and LOVE!"). "The aim of the Coppin Poets is to provide an outlet for the creative talents of Coppin students and the Black community." Coppin State is an HBCU in Baltimore founded in 1900.No copies in commerce and only one found in OCLC (NYU). N° de ref. del artículo 1062

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