Felix of the Silent Forest

Henderson, David

Published by The Poets Press, 1967

About this Item

Soft cover. Small octavo. Side stapled green wraps with artwork by Bret Rohmer. Unpaginated. One of 2000 copies. SIGNED by the author with a long inscription around the margins of the title page. Introduction by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). Edges faded and TEXT BLOCK LOOSE and cover separated at the spine. Felix of the Silent Forest is Henderson's first poetry collection. In the title poem, the cartoon character Felix the Cat "walks the City hungry in every sense," representing disenfranchised blacks and others spurned by American society. These poems introduced many of Henderson's recurrent images and themes, such as the forest in the city and the assassination of Malcolm X. - online review.David Henderson is an American writer and poet. Henderson was a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s. He has been an active member of New York s Lower East Side art community for more than 40 years. In 1962 Henderson co-founded Umbra, both a literary collective and literary magazine with other Black writers and artists in New York's Lower East Side.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Felix of the Silent Forest
• Publisher: The Poets Press
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)