Poetry. Preface by Lorenzo Thomas: One of the important but lesser-known poets and playwrights who set the tone for the socially committed black arts movement of the 1960s, Marvin X is highly respected as a poet, performer and organizer....His play Flowers for the Trahsman (also known as Take Care of Business) was enormously popular and frequently performed by the network of black arts community theaters across the country from the late 1960s and...