The time : portrait of a journey home : poems and photographs / by Esther Iverem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iverem, Esther, 1960-

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 85 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, Inc., Africa World Press.

Summary:

This book powerfully captures the complexities of what it has meant for an urban, educated, intelligent and sensitive African American woman to come of age in the 1970's and 1980's. It is refreshing that someone of Iverem's breadth, insight and love of words has provided a poetic document of life for an as yet unlabeled, unchronicled group--those of us a shade too young to have been 1960's black power nationalists and a shade too old to be 1990's post-soul searchers.

Contents:

Pologue

Part I. I Seen It

Part II. Stand Here if Your Gas has been Terminated

Part III. Take Me Back, Dear Lord

Epilogue.

Notes:

"First Printing, 1993."

"Back and cover design by Jonathan Gullery."

"Cover photograph 'Home Series #1' by Esther Iverem."

"In mixed chronological order, these poems and photographs document the physical, mental and spiritual journey of a young African American woman during the 1980s and early 1990s. The prologue covers through the year 1978. Part I is the late 1980s and spills into the 1990s. Part II picks up after Leaving Home, from 1978 to 1982, and Part III is a meditation on home, from 1983 to 1985."--Introduction.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0865434050

0865434069

OCLC:

28633921