Black Self Definition, Small Press Circulation, and Black Arts Poetics in Don L. Lee’s "Black Pride," 1968
"Black Pride" preserves Don L. Lee’s poems at the point where his Chicago Black Arts voice was moving through Broadside Press’s inexpensive national poetry network. The dedication names Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, and John Coltrane as “innovators in their own way,” placing Lee’s poems inside a lineage of Black political.....
