Lance Jeffers
A poet, short fiction writer, and novelist, Jeffers’ work was not included in the list of Black movement literature. For a long time, he was bypassed as just a writer and his voice was not ‘loud enough’. Yet Jeffers's political stances as a poet are culturally nationalistic and informed by a consistent appreciation of the beauty and possibilities in black people. - source OxfordRefernce
Several of his poems in Africa Where I Baked My Bread are about San Francisco and the people and experiences you had there.
"Africa, I lay my hand upon your swarthy belly-
And keep it there till death stubs his toe
against my manhood in the night"
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