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First edition. Quarto. 257pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small tear and some creasing to the topedge. With errata slip laid in. Inscribed by the author: ""For James and Norma Nabrit with best wishes Sterling A. Brown. December 1980."" James Nabrit, Jr. was a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who worked with Thurgood Marshall before becoming president of Howard University and later Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Lyndon Johnson. Brown was a successful poet during the Harlem Renaissance, largely based on his 1932 volume of poetry, *Southern Road*. Despite that success he found it nearly impossible to secure a publisher for his subsequent work until late in his life. He spent much of his life teaching writing at Howard, Lincoln, and Fisk Universities. Among his students were Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Kwame Toure, and many others. He was also active in Civil Rights work and as an advisor to the NAACP. An important book by a much overlooked Harlem Renaissance poet with a nice association.
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