Roll the Forbidden Drums! [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]

Kramer, Aaron; Alfred Kreymborg (Foreword by). Roll the Forbidden Drums! [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. New York: Cameron & Kahn, 1954. First edition. Octavo. 64pp. Original printed dust-jacket over grey cloth. Front free endpaper inscribed by author to Edith Segal* “A talented and inspiring person”, and dated 8-1-54. This tenth book of poems by Aaron Kramer is motivated by his existence as a worker on the one hand and on the other his refuge and life at home with his family. Dust-jacket sunned along edges and partly chipped at head and tail of spine. DJ in overall good-, binding in good+, interior in very good condition. g. Hardcover.

*Edith Segal (1902-1997) was an American dancer, teacher and writer. In 1930 she traveled to Soviet Russia alongside a group of American artists. When the group returned to the United States they declared, “Art is a Weapon.” Segal was committed to leftist ideals, including racial equality, as represented in her work Black and White (1930). Segal had formed her company, the Red Dancers, by 1929 and in 1933, the Red Dancers joined with other dance groups, including the New Dance Group and the dance company of Anna Sokolow (1910–2000) under the slogan, “Dance is a Weapon.” (34665) $65