A GALLERY OF HARLEM PORTRAITS by Melvin B. Tolson - 1979

University of Missouri Press, 1980. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Missouri, 1980-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

1985. 1985 Harris, William J THE POETRY AND POETICS OF AMIRI BARAKA Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, c1985 174pp, index 8vo Fine trade hardcover copy with near fine d/w.

Columbia. 1979. University of Missouri Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0826202764. Edited and with an afterword by Robert M. Farnsworth. 276 pages. hardcover. Jacket art by Jerry Dadds. keywords: Poetry America Literature Harlem African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Gallery of Harlem Portraits is Melvin B. Tolson's first book-length collection of poems. It was written in the 1930s when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University, and will provide scholars and critics a rich insight into how Tolson's literary picture of Harlem evolved. Modeled on Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology and showing the influence of Browning and Whitman, it is rooted in the Harlem Renaissance in its fascination with Harlem's cultural and ethnic diversity and its use of musical forms. Robert M. Farnsworth's afterword elucidates these and other literary influences. Tolson eventually attempted to… Read More

Columbia MO: University of Missouri, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 276. Illustrated wtih phjotographs. Edited, with an afterword, by Robert M. Farnsworth. Brown cloth stamped in black. Edges slightly scratched, o/w a nice copy in dj.