Narratives : poems in the tradition of Black women / by Cheryl Clarke ; [drawings by Gay Belknap (Gaia)].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Cheryl, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Belknap, Gay, illustrator.

Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, publisher.

Iowa City Women's Press, printer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

African American women authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Hoeber, Ditta Baron (donor)

Baron, Herschel (former owner)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Clarke, Cheryl, 1947- (autograph, 8/4/86) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

v, 55 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1983]

Contents:

Hair: a narrative

If you black get back

The older American

Fathers

Of Althea and Flaxie

April 4, 1968: Washington, D.C.

Gum

The moon in cancer

Mavis writes in her journal

Waiting up

Ruby the runaway

Gail

A mother's story

The johnny cake

Cantaloupe.

Notes:

"©1982, 1983 by Cheryl Clarke"--verso of title page.

"Printed by Iowa City Women's Press"--verso of title page.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has inscription: "To Joanna, Thanks for supporting my work. Take care. All best, Cheryl 8/4/86".

ISBN:

0913175005

OCLC:

10203932