Poetry for My People

by Henry Dumas

A free-lance writer, active in the area of "little magazine" writing and publishing, and a member of the teaching staff of the Experiment in Higher Education at Southern Illinois University in East St. Louis, Henry Dumas had amassed a considerable body of work at the time of his death in 1968at the age of thirty-four. These two volumes (Ark of Bones and Other Stories and Poetry for my

People), comprise most of his work, published and unpublished. They amply show the sensitivity and skill with which he approached the themes of blackness and youth, the preoccupations of the stories, and, in the themes and techniques of the poems, demonstrate the awareness of what an African heritage can mean to an American writer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809304430
• ISBN13: 9780809304431
• Release Date: December 1970
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"