Before I Wake an Other Tales by Detroiters

Detroit: Detroit Black Writers Guild, 1990.

Softcover. Good. 159 pp. Moderate cover wear (creasing, fraying of paper, ink scribble on front cover), internally clean, with some general wear from use. According to the introduction, "The Black Writers' Guilf was founded in 1983 as a non-profit organization for the specific purpose of increasing literacy awareness and to encourage inner city residents (young and old) to write as an alternative to the many less positive activities available within the city....This pubiscation, Before I Awake, a book of selected short stores, was published by the Guild in order to give our writers an opportunity to see something of theirs in print and, hopefulluy, to encourage them to continue in this very rewarding field." Includes work by Robert Kenyatta Jones, Peggy A. Moore, Herbert R. Metoyer, Jr., Barbara Hunter, Dianne White Morris, Suma, Lafayette King, Ruth Rosa Green, Michael Nance, Michael Bernard Tolliver, and Harry M. Anderson.

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Price: $75.00