Poems (L - P), manuscript and typescript, 1971 - 1989
Scope and Contents
File Includes: "A Lil' Hope Is All We Need," "Love Song to Idi Amin," "Mountain Mother," "My Uncle is my Honor and a Guest in my House (For Jim Cozart and Ezephalele)," "O Elizabeth," "Once On a Night in the Delta: A Report from Hell (for Sterling Brown)," "On Lust," "On Seeing the Black Male as #1 Sex Object in America," "On the Birth of a Black Baby Boy (for Isaac BuShie Blackburn-Knight)," "On the Removal of the Facist American Right from Power," "A Poem by All/Of/Us," "A Poem to the People," (written on the back of a letter by Stuart Friebert, dated May 25, 1983), and "A Poem (for the students at Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, TX who never got the books they bought),"
Dates
- Creation: 1971 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Health, financial and legal records are restricted until 2041 (Boxes 20-21, 29).
Extent
From the Collection: 14.59 Linear Feet (27 boxes, 2 oversize boxes)
From the Collection: 2.67 Gigabytes (6 digital oral history interviews)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Butler University Special Collections and University Archives Repository
4600 Sunset Avenue
Irwin Library 345
Indianapolis Indiana 46208 United States
specialcollections@butler.edu