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Baroque Press; New York, NY, 2012. 1st Edition. Softcover. Fine. 0x0x0. Inscribed by Author(s). [POETRY]. Tusiani, Joseph. "Ninety Poems Selected by the Author." Baroque Press; New York, 2012. Signed and inscribed by the author in ink on title page. English language. Softcover. 164 pages. French flaps. Blue wrappers. Text clean. Price in pencil on front free endpaper. Black and red lettering. Inscribed [For Gloria Wong, a dear, talented, gentle friend, with cordial best wishes, Joseph Tusiani. New York, Jan. 11, 2014]. Wong seems to be a financial analyst for the city. Fine. ISBN: 9780985571801.New York State Poet Laureate Emeritus Joseph Tusiani was a professor emeritus at Lehman College and a prominent Italian-American poet who translated Michelangelo's poetry. Tusiani died of COVID-19 in 2020 at the age of 96 during the first wave of COVID in New York City. OCLC only finds 3 copies held by libraries worldwide. No other copies are currently offered for sale online. "Ninety… Read More

[NATION OF ISLAM]. A fine portrait of Nation of Islam leader, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the mentor of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and Louis Farrakhan, in oil paint, framed in gilt wood, with canvas and gilt metal matting. This painting, with an especially exquisite rendering of Elijah Muhammad's iconic crushed black velvet diamond-encrusted kofia, was sourced in Bedford-Stuyvesant, home of Masjid Abdul Muhsi Khalifah, Temple 7C of the Nation of Islam, which was purchased by Malcolm X in the 1960s. Though unsigned, the portrait was executed by a talented portraitist, and is far superior to other images based on the NOI leader's famous official photo. Elijah Muhammad, though a complicated man, was one of the most influential black leaders of the twentieth century, whose message had an outsize impact on politics, civil rights, and black nationalism in the United States. c.1960s-1970s. 20 x 24 inches, in a Dae Ryung Co. frame, and evidently previously auctioned, to judge by the sticker and markings on… Read More