Canons

1970 · rif. 626514 — Germany: The Olympia Press 1970. Hardcover. Good. German edition. Text in German. Translated by Rolf Matthias. Bound in red cloth stamped in green on the spine. Owner gift inscription on half title about a dozen pages loose and laid in at the rear faint discoloration on boards with rubbing on spine good only. Cannon's first and only novel a filthy coming-of-age story set in New Orleans and one that Ishmael Reed called the precursor to rap. Cannon was a member of the Society of Umbra a collective of Black writers and later founded the art organization A Gathering of Tribes that published literary magazines and provided a performance space at his townhouse in the East Village of Manhattan for many artists such as Sun Ra Billy Bang Ishmael Reed and more. The Olympia Press hardcover books