Blues Journeys Home (1985 Lotus Press edition) (Q8681)

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1985 first edition published by Lotus Press, Detroit
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Blues Journeys Home (1985 Lotus Press edition)
1985 first edition published by Lotus Press, Detroit

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    Blues Journeys Home | New and Selected Poems | by | Houston A. Baker, Jr. | Illustrated by Jeff Donaldson | [publisher's device] | LOTUS PRESS | Detroit | 1985
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    Copyright 1985 by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
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    All rights reserved
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    0916418618
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    First Edition
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    In Memory of My Father, | Houston A. Baker, Sr.
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    [1 of 2] Acknowledgements | The author wishes to thank James Olney for including a number of poems that | appear in the present volume in a recent issue of The Southern Review. He is | grateful as well for Naomi Long Madgett's permission to reprint poems that | appeared in earlier volumes of his work published by Lotus Press. And he feels |
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    [2 of 2] enormous gratitude for a grant from the Research Foundation of the University of | Pennsylvania which helped to finance the present volume and made possible the | brilliant illustrations by Jeff Donaldson.
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    illustration of a group of people gathered outside, a small cabin in the background
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    illustration of a male figure (pastor?) and female figure with arms outstretched above a crowd of silhouettes
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    illustration of a ploughman and mule in the field
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    illustration of a guitarist playing for a woman amongst a crowd of dancing silhouettes
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    psychedelic illustration of a saxophone player
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    59, [5] pages
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