Alvin Aubert, Ed.

Obsidian : Black Literature in Review [6 issues]

Detroit: Alvin Aubert, 1975-78, 1982. Perfect-bound octavos (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) in illustrated wrappers, 98 pp. (Volume 1, Number 2); 90 pp. (Volume 2, Number 2); 125 pp. (Volume 2, Number 3); 105 pp. (Volume 3, Number 3); 122 pp. (Volume 4, Number 1); 198 pp. (Volume 8, Numbers 2 & 3).
Issued bi-annually as a peer-reviewed literary journal with a National Endowment for the Arts grant through the Publications Unit in the Department of English at Illinois State University, the journal originated at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Fredonia by editor and poet Alvin Aubert, who funded the publication himself prior to receiving unsolicited aid from friends and fellow writers.
This is a grouping of six issues from '75 to '82 featuring interviews with Clarence Major, Gayl Jones, Charles L. James, E. Ethelbert Miller; literary criticism from Lorenzo Thomas, Eugenia Collier, R. Baxter Miller, Albert Olu Ashaolu, D.B. Graham, Grace Eckley, Bu-Buakei Jabbi, Charles E. Nnolim, Barry Gross; fiction and poetry from Gayl Jones, Sam Cornish, Melvin Dixon, Asili Ya Nadhiri, Essex Hemphill, James C. Kilgore, Ricardo Alonso, Ikenna Dieke, so much more. Good or better condition, wraps are edge worn with some light soiling and creasing, a couple issues have some bruising and chipping to spine ends, they are all subscription copies with sticker marks to cover and address sticker to playwright Douglas Turner Ward. Item #2971

Price: $125.00