Jefferson, Keith

East St. Louis, IL: Black River Writers, 1975. Introduction by Eugene Redmond. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 34pp. SIGNED and inscribed, at length, by Jefferson on the title-page. Poems hand-lettered, with reproduced black-and-white line drawings by Jefferson throughout. Light toning and soiling to wraps, bookstore sticker at base of rear cover. Near fine. N.B. Though the copyright page gives a date of 1975, Redmond's introduction is dated to 1976, indicating that as the most likely year of publication. According to the rear cover copy, Jefferson is a Kansas City native, who was living at the time of publication in California, where he worked as an apprentice teacher at the Sacramento Waldorf School, and was a member of the Henry Dumas Creative Writing Workshop of Sacramento. The Black River Writers Press was founded in 1967 by Eugene Redmond, a prominent member of the Black Arts Movement and winner in 1993 of the American Book Award for his poetry collection, The