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Jonestown & other madness : poetry / by Pat Parker.
LIBRA PS3566.A6847 J6 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Pat, 1944-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American lesbians--Poetry.
- African American lesbians.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 75 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Jonestown and other madness.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Firebrand Books, 1985.
- Contents:
- Love isn't
- Bar conversation
- My brother
- Georgia, Georgia, Georgia on my mind
- One Thanksgiving Day
- Aftermath
- Breaking up
- Maybe I should have been a teacher
- Child's play
- Jonestown
- Legacy.
- Notes:
- "Book design by Allison Platt. Cover design by Cassandra Maxwell-Simmons and Betsy Bayley."
- "Typesetting by Tracy Hammer."
- "This book came about because we have become too quiet. We go to our jobs and raise our families and turn our minds away from the madness that surrounds us .... We are a nation in great trouble. It is time for those with vision to speak out loudly before the madness consumes us all."--Foreword.
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0932379001
- 093237901X :
- OCLC:
- 11755413
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