Black Images - Inscribed to Roberto Marquez

New York: Teachers College Press, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; xiv,186pp. This copy is from the library of to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez, inscribed to him by the author on the half-title page: "Bro Roberto / Attempt with me to vitalize the black image / [illegible] / Wilfred." Four passages underlined or marked in the margins by the recipient (in ink); light wear to extremities, gentle sunning and a faint reading crease to spine, with a small abrasion to upper front cover; Very Good.

An early collection by the noted Trinidadian poet and (truncated) professor of Black Studies at City University of New York. "Weaving together history and folklore, politics and music, economics and dance [Cartey] digs into poetry principally from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Santo Domingo, a poetry which seeks to apprehend the vitalizing heritage of blackness in the Caribbean" (from rear wrapper). Uncommon inscribed. BLOCKSON 7383. 84999. (Inventory #: 84999)