From Memphis & Peking; poems / by B. Chase-Riboud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chase-Riboud, Barbara.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 112 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Other Title:

From Memphis and Peking

Place of Publication:

New York, Random House 1974.

Contents:

Memphis. Why did we leave Zanzibar; Come with me; If I long for that oasis; All reverence to her; Bathers; The seal; Pearls; Le lit; Love can die; The albino; I've traveled; On hearing of a death in prison; Going to Memphis

Anna. Anna

Letters. I awoke in the shaved and sullen heat; I claim the beauty of you; I had waited ...; A postmark from where you are; A white space; Special delivery letter; I kept them all; The answer; To Gloria; How do I say; Le Chenillère I; La Chenillère II

Peking. On the terrace at 11 Nan Chihtze St.; The divorce of Comrade Wu and Comrad Lui; I saw a Chinese lady; Smiling Mao; Hangchow; Sneaking around corners; Shanghai; Soft-shell crabs steaming; Flying a kite ...; Tai lake stone; If one sets one's foot; Mao waved to the people; Ponies ...; Letter from Mongolia; The well of the Precious Concubine Pearl; Han shroud

White Porcelains. And out of love; Heads bent; In darkness I lie; Sing to me; Body poised; Let me lie down in red; I gather; Dawn is crackled; White porcelain ink pot; Curving like a colorless Vasarely; Organdy curtains shifting; An almost full moon.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0394488997 :

OCLC:

754502