The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey
Author: The Rt. Honorable Marcus Garvey
Editor: Tony Martin
(Garvey Library Link Here)
Paperback: 131 pages
First Published:
Publisher: Majority Press (September 1, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 091246903X
ISBN-13: 978-0912469034
Details: “A great many people have been surprised and pleased at discovering that Hon. Marcus Garvey…is a poet of high order….” T. Thomas Fortune, THE NEGRO WORLD (1927)
“The Black Woman”
Black queen of beauty, thou hast given color to the world!
Among other women thou art royal and the fairest!
Like the brightest of jewels in the regal diadem,
Shin’st thou, Goddess of Africa, Nature’s purest emblem!
Marcus Garvey, THE POETICAL WORKS OF MARCUS GARVEY
“There are several memorable lines in The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey, that assume the authority of aphorism.” Carolyn Cooper, THE BLACK SCHOLAR
1983. viii + 123pp. ISBN 0-912469-02-1 (cloth), 0-912469-03-X (paper).