The Drum, Vols. 16 & 17, Nos. I & II, May 1987
Amherst: Drum, 1987. A double issue of this long-running, irregularly published black literary magazine published by students UMass-Amherst from 1969-1988. Selected content for this double issue includes a poem by Andrew Salkey to James Baldwin, an excerpt of a Jamaica Kincaid story, part I of Bill Strickland's article, "The Rise and Fall of Black Political Culture: Or How Blacks Became a Minority," interviews with Amiri Baraka, Jimmy Jam, Arthur Jackson (UMass professor/administrator), etc., photographs by Robert Sengstacke, color reproductions of artwork by Wadsworth Jarrell, W. Slack, Nefertiti, et. al. articles on U.S. foreign policy in South Africa, and much more.
Stapled, illustrated wrappers (11" x 8 ½”), 96 p., illus. A fine copy. Item #11323
Price: $95.00