hale chatfield (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Octavo. Stapled photographic wrappers. Fine.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Magazine. Small octavo. Paper wrappers. Sunned along the spine, near fine. A literary anthology with contributions from Harold Witt, Charles Edward Eaton, Daniel Hoffman, David Ignatow, William Matthew, Robert Mezey, Philip Booth, David Wagoner, Dugan Gilman, James Schevill, Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Stuart Friebert, Dave Etter, Sonya Dorman, Mark McCloskey, Paul Zimmer, David Steingass, Joseph Bruchac, Lyn Lifshin, John Unterecker, Stuart Peterfreund, William Hathaway, Herbert Scott, Terry Stokes, Robert L. Jones, DeWayne Rail, C.G. Hanzlicek, H.L. Van Brunt, James Tipton, David Hilton, Tom McKeown, Wesley McNair, William Witherup, Hale Chatfield, Elton Glaser, James Craig, Alan Soldofsky, Danny L. Rendleman, Rochelle Ratner, Gena Ford, Ian Young, Felix Pollak, Phillip Hey, Robert Hershon, and Carolyn Stoloff.

Edition limited to 450 copies, square 8vo, pp. [28]; 3 full-page drawings by Jeanne Meinke; fine in original decorative paper-covered boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 165x241mm; xviii, [2], 116, [3]. TRUE FIRST EDITION OF DUMAS 'ARK OF BONES', THE FIRST COLLECTION OF HIS STORIES. At the time of his early death in 1968, age 33, at the hands of a New York City Transit police officer, Dumas was just becoming known as an author of innovative fiction and poetry. Through the work of his colleague Eugene Redmond and editor of the Hiram Poetry Review Hale Chatfield, Southern Illinois University Press issued the present volume and a volume of poetry entitled Poetry for My People. In 1974 Amiri Baraka celebrated Dumas' work in his important essay on 'Afro-Surrealism', placing Dumas in the 1960s 'Black Arts Movement', and writing "The world of Ark of Bones, for instance, shares a black mythological lyricism, strange yet ethnically familiar! Africa, the southern U.S., black life and custom are motif, mood and light, rhythm, and implied history." In the same year Toni Morrison wrote that Dumas "had written some of the most beautiful, moving, and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life", and successfully psersuaded Random House to re-issue his work. Subsequent editions and the discovery of hitherto-unpublished work has secured Dumas' repution as one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century, especially in the short story form. His work his been cited as an influence on many writers, and also on rap lyrics and shows such as Donald Glover's Atlanta. Very good condition: unclipped dust-jacket lightly marked, with faint yellowing to the spine; two small closed tears along top edge; near fine cloth-covered boards; clean and bright throughout.

First edition. First edition. xviii, 116 pp. Bound in publisher's grayish-green boards and black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket with toning to back panel, else Fine. An excellent copy. Scarce.A posthumously-published collection of short stories by the African American poet and writer shot dead at age 34 by a New York Transit Police Officer in 1968.