Scope and Contents N[orman]. H. Pritchard contributed the typewriter, concrete and punctuation poems. Among the very first modern anthologies of newer African-American poetry, DICES OR BLACK BONES received the California Teachers of English Award for Best Anthology, 1970. This book was precedent setting in several ways. The editor was allowed to control the illustrator and thereby control the cover image, important at the time because so many contemporary publications then used lurid and often violent imagery to depict African-American experiences. DICES, instead, used art that expressed an African sensibility in keeping with the spirit of the movement-era of the early 1970s. The book premiered poetry by several of the younger Black writers who later became well-known: Al Young, Lucille Clifton, Ishmael Reed, Etheridge Knight, Victor Hernandez Cruz, David Henderson, Conyus, and Clarence Major, as well as many other writers deserving of attention. DICES challenged the prejudice there was no...