Bill Collector in Harlem (with annotations)

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163 [*”Bill Collector in Harlem”: “Hi, there!: was a phrase actually seen on a low-income project hallway door in Brooklyn by the author, though the scene is here transferred to Harlem, which is in upper New York City.*] Bill Collector in Harlem “Hi, there!” Some Harlem child Had chalked on the hallway door. Not a Georgia scrawl, Not a “Hi, y’all” In dirt on a sharecropper’s wall. But tenement white, Pert and bright, Erect, and spelled just right For the cockroach fat, The shoebrush rat, And the Upper New York cat. Through a heavy hallway door Some Harlem child said “Hi, there!” (cs. 1961) 1962

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Poem written by Emanuel in1962 about a man collecting money in the streets of Harlem. Has an extra sheet with annotations attached

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    629 KB
  • container title
    James A. Emanuel Papers
  • creator
    James A. Emanuel
  • issue
    BOX 5 FOLDER 12 "Whole Grain and Later Poems of James A. Emanuel (Annotated by the Auhtor), draft, part I, 1995 (2 of 2)
  • rights
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • rights holder
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • version
    1961/1962