For My People by Margaret Walker - 1992

Born in 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama, Margaret Walker is one of the most talented poets to come out of the American South and one of the most powerful voices of America. "When she speaks of and for her people, older voices are mixed with hers-the voices of Methodist forebears and preachers who preached the Word, the anonymous voices of many who lived and were forgotten and yet out of bondage and hope made a lasting music," wrote Stephen Vincent Benet.
To illustrate Margaret Walker's best-known poem, For My People, Elizabeth Catlett has created five multi-colored lithographs. Beautiful and striking, Catlett's images borrow from the African tradition of using form to communicate spirit and purpose.
Five lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett.
Edition limited to 400 numbered copies.
Each book signed by Margaret Walker and Elizabeth Catlett.
Each of the poem's ten stanzas was hand-set in thirty-point Albertus type, a sans-serif face that looks as if chiseled from granite. They were letterpress printed on French-made Arches cover paper, the same paper upon which were printed the Elizabeth Catlett lithographs. The book is bound in imported red Japanese linen over heavy boards, the box is covered in black cotton.
One Volume, 18-1/2 x 22-1/2 inches.

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