American Journal: Poems

New York: Liveright, 1982. First Edition Thus. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 60 pp. Some faint foxing to upper edge of text block, else a fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, clipped by publisher at bottom corner, with printed price intact at upper flap ($12.95).

Posthumously published reissue, with an additional ten new poems, of the 1978 by Effendi Press edition, which had been nominated for a National Book Award. Hayden was first African American to be appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the position now known as Poet Laureate).