Thirteen Frozen Flamingoes // The Photos in this listing are of the book that is offered for sale

Boyd, Melba Joyce

Verlag: Die Certel Press, Germany, 1984

Beschreibung

Germany: Die Certel Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1984. First Printing. Wrappers. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper "For Marie In the spirit of struggle & love-Melba 2/6/84 Light wear and minor toning to covers. Melba Joyce Boyd is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Wayne State University. She is the author of eleven books. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (Columbia University Press) which received the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Book Honor for Nonfiction. She is the writer, producer and director of the documentary film, The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (1996) , and the editor of Roses and Revolutions: the Collected Writings of Dudley Randall, forthcoming (2006) . Six of her books are works of poetry, the most recent of which is The Province of Literary Cats (2002) , and Blues Music Sky of Mourning: the German Poems (forthcoming) . She has won a number of awards for her poetry including, a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Award. She was commissioned to write the official poem for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, which was inscribed in bronze in the museum wall. Lines from her poem, We Want Our City Back, were chiseled into the sculpture, Transcending: Michigans Tribute to Labor, installed in downtown Detroit. Her poetry has been translated into German, Italian, and Spanish, and has been widely published in journals and anthologies. Her 1994 book, Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911, was widely reviewed and praised by critics. She has lectured at universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad, and she is the author of 50 published essays on African American literature and film. She is a series coeditor with Ron Brown, for the African American Life Series at WSU Press, and the coeditor with M. L. Liebler of Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001. In 1983-4, she was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Bremen in Germany and has held professorial positions at the University of Iowa, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan, where she received a Doctor of Arts in English 8vo - over 7à ¾" - 9à ¾" tall. Trade Paperback. ; Monika Shafer; Signed by Author . Amer 31. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 035533

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Titel: Thirteen Frozen Flamingoes // The Photos in ...

Verlag: Die Certel Press, Germany

Erscheinungsdatum: 1984

Einband: paperback

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: First Edition.