Black Poetry: a Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets

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A first edition, third printing of the Black Poetry anthology edited by Dudley Randall. The paperback book has a plain black front cover with white text. Large type at the top reads: [BLACK POETRY / EDITED BY DUDLEY RANDALL] followed by a white line. Most of the cover has smaller white text listing the titles of poems and the names of poets. Included are: Ahmed Alhamisi, Samuel Allen, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Margaret Danner, Ebon Ray Durem, James A. Emanuel, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Hayden, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Etheridge Knight, Don Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti), Doughtry Long, Claude McKay, Clarence Major, Dudley Randall, Sonia Sanchez, Melvin B. Tolson, Jean Toomer, Margaret Walker, Naomi Madgett, Edward S. Spriggs, and Langston Hughes. Along the bottom is another white line with [BROADSIDE PRESS] at left and [NINETY_FIVE CENTS] at right. There are forty-eight (48) interior pages total, all white with black type.

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