Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press

by Melba Joyce Boyd

And as I groped in darkness

and felt the pain of millions,

gradually, like day driving night across the continent,

I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.

--Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"

In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914-2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in Pink,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231130260
• ISBN13: 9780231130264
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"