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The Brass Bed and other stories / by Pearl Cleage.
LIBRA Rare PS3553.L389 B7 1991 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cleage, Pearl
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Poetry.
- African American women.
- Short stories--Women authors.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Cleage, Pearl (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 100 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Third World Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- Readers will be enlightened by this chronicle of common experiences from the author of "Mad At Miles" and "Deals With The Devil." In "The Brass Bed," a collection of autobiographical short stories, Cleage engages the reader in refreshing prose/poetry which reconciles gender consciousness with the collective African American experience.
- Contents:
- Can you see them?
- The brass bed
- Lessons
- The letter
- Reconciliation
- A Paris of the mind
- Observation
- Heading home
- Zen and the art of beetle killing
- Selena's poem
- Four from that summer
- But where are you now?
- My daughter picks the one with the sky in it
- Remembering Georgia O'Keefe
- Bus trip
- At the Warwick Hotel
- Aretha on the waterfront
- Them changes
- Life in wartime
- My mother hated being poor
- Merry Xmas, baby
- Christmas, 1981
- Mixed drink
- Monogamy blues
- Mexico love
- Motown Suite: Blue lights in the basement; The ritual record; Remembering Marvin
- Summer is coming
- Studying the Sixties
- Cowboys
- The Albino Wino dreams
- One for the brothers
- Poor little Hugh.
- Notes:
- "Cover illustration by Patrick Hill. Cover design by Gina Minor."
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".
- Banks Collection copy inscribed "To Joanna - Stay strong! Pearl Cleage 7-29-93".
- Banks Collection copy is "First Edition. First Printing".
- ISBN:
- 0883781271
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