Michael S. Harper; Walter Feldman (illus.)
The Family Sequences, 1998
Providence, RI: Ziggurat Press
One of 60 copies, this unnumbered. Signed by Harper and Feldman at the title page.
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Octavo. (11), 60pp. Illustrations by Feldman throughout, three of which are full page. Harper's poetry is, as he states in his Introduction, concerned with poetic expression itself. They are jazz-like...
Octavo. (11), 60pp. Illustrations by Feldman throughout, three of which are full page. Harper's poetry is, as he states in his Introduction, concerned with poetic expression itself. They are jazz-like in their composition, and so both lyrically and thematically attend to the lived realities of Black American history. These are made substantively plain in the final notes, which cites Harper's references to Rhode Island's problematic naming as "Providence Plantations" by Roger Williams, and to Henrietta Bowers, the first black female undertaker in the U.S. and a conductor on the underground railroad. Bound in quarter black cloth with exposed leather bands with black paper over boards. Fine.
