Blue Lights and River Songs (1982, Lotus Press, Inc. Edition)
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edition of: Blue Lights and River Songs (work)
title page transcription: BLUE LIGHTS | AND RIVER SONGS | Poems | by | Tom Dent | [ornamentation] | LOTUS PRESS | Detroit | 1982
publication statement transcription: LOTUS PRESS, INC. | "Flower of a New Nile" | Post Office Box 21607 | Detroit, Michigan 48221
copyright statement transcription: Copyright © 1982 by Tom Dent | All rights reserved
dedication statement transcription: Dedicated to | The Umbra People | and | The Congo Square People
ISBN: 0916418316
designer: Gilbert Fletcher
photographer: Bernard Herman
writer of introduction: Jerry W. Ward
format: book
extent statement: 8 [75], [1], pages
price: 4.50
published by: Lotus Press Incorporated (organization)
acknowledgment statement transcription: Some of these poems have been published in | Schwarzer Orpheus, Nkombo, New Black Voices, | Black Culture, Black World, Black River Journal, | Black American Literature Forum, Nimrod, South | and West, The American Rag, The Maple Leaf Rag, | Freedomways, and Callaloo.
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content: collective dedication
description: 1982 Lotus Press, Inc Edition