JEFFERS, Lance. When I Know the Power of my Black Hand.

(Detroit, MI): Broadside Press, 1974.  First edition.  Softcover. 21.7cm by 13.8cm.  62 pages. Introduction by Dudley Randall. Published by Detroit’s influential Broadside Press — a key platform for Black poets during the 1960s and 70s.  A stirring volume of poems that gives voice to both the personal and collective struggle for Black empowerment. With cadence and urgency, the poems confront oppression, identity, and the latent potential of self realisation. Themes of power, freedom, and resistance are woven across straightforward yet intensely felt imagery. A very good copy, some underlining and annotations, in wrappers.