Boston: Beacon, 1971. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first regularly published collection of poetry (a chapbook of the same name was published in 1966.) SIGNED on the title page. Cornish was named as Boston's first Poet Laureate in 2008. Preface by Ruth Whitman. Illustrated with photographs. 81 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-64149.