The Present is a Dangerous Place to Live (1974 Third World Press edition)
type: Item
instance of: edition
edition of: The Present is a Dangerous Place to Live (work)
extent statement: i-iii, [iv-vi], [1-4], 5-34, [4] pages
format: book
title page transcription: THE PRESENT IS A DANGEROUS | PLACE TO LIVE | by | KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE | Third World Press Chicago
printing statement transcription: Manufactured in the United States of America
copyright statement transcription: Copyright © 1974 by Keorapetse Kgositsile | All Rights Reserved
dedication statement transcription: [1] For all those brothers and sisters | Who struggled to look at the present | Straight in its dangerous face | And faced it in attempts to change it | And to the memory of: | Conrad Kent Rivers, Eric Dolphy, Henry Dumas | Whose still voices are out there | Hammered into an area of depthoffeeling | In the whirlwind with Coleman Hawkins
dedication statement transcription: [2] And Jean Toomer. They still reed and rite | Right here where they knew that "The Dixie Pike | Has grown from a goat path in Africa."
edition statement transcription: First Edition
ISBN: O883780577
published by: Third World Press
illustrator: Skunder Boghossian
designer: K. Kofi Moyo
writer of foreword: George Kent
included work: In the Mourning (work)
included work: Beware of Dreams (work)
included work: Without Shadow (work)
included work: Mirrors, Without Song (work)
included work: Mystique (work)
included work: When Things Fall Apart (work)
included work: Exile (work)
included work: Perception (work)
included work: Logistics (work)
included work: Notes from No Santuary (work)
included work: Blues for Some Literary Friends & Myself (work)
included work: For Billie Holiday (work)
included work: For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (work)
included work: For B.B. King and Lucille (work)
included work: Acknowledgement (work)
included work: Pro/Creation (work)
included work: For Hughie Masekela (work)
included work: For Ipeleng (work)
indexed status: partially indexed
photographer: C. Daniel Dawson
description: 1974 edition, published by Third World Press