THE BLACK HAWK SONGS: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1975). First edition - His first book, a 30 poem sequence about the famous chief of the Sauk and Fox tribe (the tribe to which his great grandmother belonged), poems which examine Black Hawk's transformation from boy to warrior to chief to defeated, embittered old man, a prisoner of the whites. Praise from Michael Harper and Dee Brown, among others. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-252005287.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's name - that of poet Elizabeth Harrod - on first page. Some toning to the covers.
Book ID: 83411
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