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Heading: (African American, 1927)
Author: Garvey, Marcus
Title: Selections from The Poetic Mediations of Marcus Garvey
Place Published: (New York)
Publisher:Amy Jacques Garvey
Date Published: ca. 1927
Description:

Pages numbered 3-30. 8x5", original wrappers. Early trade Edition.

Dedication to Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association on verso of front wrapper, and Garvey publication advertisements on recto and verso of the rear wrapper, one for the 2-volume set of "Africa for the Africans", the other for the 1927 song "Keep Cool", with lyrics by Garvey. Collection of two dozen poems on religious and secular subjects dated from February to November 1927 by the celebrated Black separatist. WorldCat cites the imprint in the Schomburg Collection printed on only one side of 15 leaves; a copy of that printing brought over $1200 at auction in 2004. It is uncertain if that imprint has the same 27 poems printed in this copy.

Marcus Garvey was alternately lauded as a "Colored Moses" and denounced as a "Black Barnum" who hobnobbed with the Ku Klux Klan. In 1923, Garvey was indicted for mail fraud for selling stock in the defunct Black Star Line that was to carry American Black migrants to Africa. Convicted and sentenced to five years in the Atlanta penitentiary, he began his prison sentence in February 1925. After two and a half years of prison labor as a janitor and dishwasher, suffering from asthma, his sentence was commuted and he was released on November 27, 1927, but only so he could be immediately deported to his native Jamaica. The last of these poems, published In New York by his second wife, was dated two weeks before he was put aboard a New Orleans steamer bound for the West Indies.

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Moderate wear and soiling to the stapled wrappers; good.

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