Broadway and Other Poems
[Montclair, NJ?]: [No Publisher], [1932].
First edition. 60 pp. Bound in publisher's green stiff wraps lettered in copper. Good+, front wrap chewed along edges, a few small nibbles to prelims as well, front wrap a little stained. Very scarce, with only two holdings located in OCLC. A self-published, highly political book of poetry by a Black senior at Montclair High School in New Jersey. The poet provides a brief autobiographical sketch (pages 58-59) in which he mentions being born on the Caribbean island of Saint Christopher, living in Cuba, and arriving in the US in 1929. He praises Marcus Garvey and argues for racial separation and Black repatriation to Africa. Mentioned in Fabre and French Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975 p. 120, and Rush Black American Writers Past and Present p. 440 but with hardly information about author or book.
Price: $1,500.00