Black Man, 13th Floor (with annotations) 1

Resource added
ah crease his paper roun the
Bobby Seale
foldin it slow for his arm.

Them brothers
getting they vitamin D
getting they 7-de/hy/dro
cho/les/ter/ol--
yeah--
when that blackness come
they gonna live.

1970
19[undecipherable]

Black Man, 13th Floor

Hotel Ameridemocratogrando
12 floors below me, 12 above
stops nothing at my life
(this 13th floor 
this legacy from black charioteers
swung low, stolen away
ridin middle passage
between the breathin floors
ashcakers brought to bed on clay
massa’s thirteeners

Full description

Poem written by Emanuel in 1970, typed with an extra sheet with annotations attached. (Page 1)

Comments

Log in to view and add comments.

Annotations

No one has annotated a text with this resource yet.

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    573 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
    1976/1977