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New York: Random House, 1974. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing of this powerful collection of poetry, posthumously published after Dumas was murdered by a police officer in 1968. At age 32, Henry Dumas was a professor at Southern Illinois University and a rising star in the Black Arts Movement. Dumas's life was cut short at the hands of a white police officer in a New York City subway station; the officer claimed Dumas had a knife, but there were no witnesses and the records of the encounter were lost. But Dumas's work lived on: "I was impressed with his boldness of language and his boldness of breadth," recalled Maya Angelou. "[H]e had written some of the most beautiful, moving and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read," noted Toni Morrison (Beenish Ahmed). Morrison used her position at Random House to champion Dumas's work after his death, which directly led to the publication of PLAY EBONY PLAY IVORY. This is a remarkably sharp example, with original…
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- Title Play Ebony, Play Ivory
- Author Dumas, Henry
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Random House, New York
- Date 1974
- ISBN 9780394489704
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