front cover
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
- For Melba, 1972
- paper
- Inv: 2026.01.028
Title: For Melba
Publisher: Third World Press
Date: 1970
Creator: Keorapetse Kgositsile
The front and back covers feature abstract black-and-white drawings and a photograph by Doug Harris. The back cover includes a short biography of the author: Keorapetse Kgositsile is from Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been in exile since 1961. His poems and essays have appeared in magazines including Guerilla, Journal of Black Poetry, Negro Digest, The New African, Pan African Journal, and Urban Review, as well as in the anthologies Black Arts, Black Fire, For Malcolm, and Poems Now. In 1969, he won the Conrad Kent Rivers Memorial Award, given by Negro Digest.
- Subject Matter: Black poetry
- Collections: The Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd Literary Collection
