In the Mecca
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. 54 pp. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket.
"The book takes its title from a long narrative poem set in a huge decayed apartment house in Chicago's Negro ghetto, a building called the Mecca." Nine shorter poems follow, referencing Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, and the book concludes with "The Sermon on the Warpland" and "The Second Sermon on the Warpland." Item #1202
Price: $125.00
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