Erotique noire = Black erotica / editors, Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, Roseann P. Bell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, editor.

Martin, Reginald, 1956- editor.

Bell, Roseann P., editor.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic literature, American.

Erotic literature--Black authors--Translations into English.

Erotic literature.

African Americans--Sexual behavior--Literary collections.

African Americans.

Black people--Sexual behavior--Literary collections.

Black people.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

Erotic literature--Black authors.

African Americans--Sexual behavior.

Black people--Sexual behavior.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Translations.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xl, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Black erotica.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [1992].

Contents:

Fore/Play / Ntozake Shange

Preface In(se)duction: Out of the Closet and into the Bedroom / Editors

Introduction / Miriam Decosta-Willis

Part 1 Love Juices and Other Squeezables

Tasty Knees / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Love Poem / Audre Lorde

Sweet Sugarcane from The Women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor

Stolen / Frank Lamont Phillips

Afro-Hispanic Triptych: Three Women / Manuel Zapata Olivella. Translated by Ian Smart

Haiku #9 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Midnight Licorice Nights / P. J. Gibson

Put Your Tongue in It / Thomas Stanley

A Dinner Invitation / Yana West

Cuntinent / Ted Joans

Temple Oranges / Esperanza Malavé Cintrón

Beached / Revonne L. Romney

My All Day Sucker / M. J. Morgan

Forbidden Fruits and Unholy Lusts: Illicit Sex in Black American Literature / Sandra Y. Govan

Part 2 When the Spirits Come

Saint Chant / Gloria T. Hull

The Seal / Barbara Chase-Riboud

Sexy Signs / Thelma Balfour

Haiku #79 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

sudden ecstasies in lefthanded places (whatever the traffic will bear) / Lemuel Johnson

from Say Jesus and Come to Me / Ann Allen Shockley

Man to Man / Beryl Gilroy

There / Opal Palmer Adisa

Faded Roses / Afua Cooper

A Single Rose / S. D. Allen

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power / Audre Lorde

At Sixty / Dennis Brutus

All in Good Taste / Nelson Estupiñán Bass. Translated by Lemuel Johnson

African-American Erotica and Other Curiosities: "The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice . . ." / Charles L. Blockson

Part 3 Movin to the Beat

The Sweetest Sound / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Double Congas / Lee Ben, Jr.

from Under the Skin of the Drums Luz Argentina Chiriboga. Translated by Stanley Cyrus

when the horn fits, blow it / Akua Lezli Hope

Gorgeous Puddin' / Ann T. Greene

Taking a Six for a Nine: Sexual Imagery in the Trinidad Calypso / Keith Warner

from Sounds of Joy / Lorenzo Thomas

Untitled / Dennis Brutus

Songs They Could Sing #789 / Akua Lezli Hope

Dew's Song / Calvin Hernton

Part 4 Swimming in Your Wetness

All Wet in Green / John Turpin

P.G. / Sdiane Bogus

Black Male/Tales / Dolores Da Costa

Haiku #107 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Erotic Note #4 / Cheri

Wet Kisses / Frank Lamont Phillips

Meet / Audre Lorde

Insatiable / Opal Palmer Adisa

from Echo of Lions / Barbara Chase-Riboud

from Woman Story / O. R. Dathorne

Haiku #52 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Birds / E. Ethelbert Miller

Haiku #102 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Edible or Incredible: Black Erotic Collectibles / Jessie Carney Smith

Part 5 Naughty, Nasty, and Nice

Pin-up Poems / Bessie N. Price

Tocame / Ntozake Shange

The Fight / Beryl Gilroy

from Hadriana dans tous mes rêves / René Depestre. Translated by Aaron Segal

Stray Thoughts / Esperanza Malavé Cintrón

Nasty Delightful Things from Down These Mean Streets / Piri Thomas

Telegram from Topeka / Akua Lezli Hope

Teasing Tales and Tit(Bit)s from Shuckin' and Jivin' / Daryl Dance

Warning / Saundra Sharp

Channeling / Sandra Y. Govan

A New Year's Eve Celebration / Yana West

Dyke Hands / Sdiane Bogus

Dildo / Toi Derricotte

Part 6 Ooohwee, Baby, You Feel So Good

Fresh / Saundra Sharp

Trotting Through the Park / John Turpin

What Makes Siedah Zip from EveryBody Knows What Time It Is / Reginald Martin

Baby / Ahmasi

We'll Be Real Good Together / P. J. Gibson

Commitment to Hardness / M. Nourbese Philip

Haiku #29 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Summer / E. Ethelbert Miller

The Three-Token Stradivarius / R. Pope

Sunburst from the Earth / Nelson Estupiñán Bass. Translated by Lemuel Johnson

Untitled / Afua Cooper

from Long Distance Life / Marita Golden

Plain Wrappers / Constance García-Barrio

Part 7 Taking the Plunge

Haiku #25 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Café Noir / Frank Lamont Phillips

Sexionnaire / R. Pope, Frank Lamont Phillips

To a Boy / Nancy Morejón. Translated by Miriam DeCosta-Willis

from First Person Singular / Lois Griffith

You Knew ... / Nelson Estupiñán Bass. Translated by Lemuel Johnson

Erector Set / Ahmasi

Teaching the Sweet Thing / P. J. Gibson

from Teach Me / Michelle Renée Pichon

from The Initiation of Belfon / Jan Carew

Discoveries / Gloria Wade-Gayles

Opening Night / Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Dear Diary / R. H. Douglas

bangarang mestiçagem / Lemuel Johnson

The 1st 3 Daze / Reginald Martin

Part 8 Flipping to the Wild Side

from Making Whoopee / Sdiane Bogus

Touching / Terry L. McMillan

Lust / Kimmika Williams

Fuck / John Turpin

Lonnie's Cousin / Wanda Coleman

The X-Lovers / Reginald Lockett

I Wanna Be Wild and Wonderful! / Dolores Da Costa, Gloria Wade-Gayles

Love Poem / Frank Lamont Phillips

A Good Knight's Leap / Charles Frye

Haiku #28 / Kalamu Ya Salaam

Comin to Terms / Ntozake Shange

(hug) / Saundra Sharp

from Black Borealis / Hillery Jacque Knight III

Part 9

Kool N Kinky/Hot N Heavy

For Kazuko / Rita Dove

Cabin Fever from The Lakestown Rebellion / Kristin Hunter

from GAR / Dennis Brutus

The Joys and Power in Celibacy / Sdiane Bogus

from Running Come Touch / Gloria T. Hull

Olive Oil / Alice Walker

Victory / Jo Smith

Wrestling and Pole Vaulting from Pinktoes / Chester B. Himes

Summer Madness / Nan Saville

from Platitudes / Trey Ellis

Interpenetration Side Two / Akua Lezli Hope

The Hog Caller's Party / M. J. Morgan

Part 10 Exotic Landscapes/Erotic Mindsets

The Joy of Sex / Claire Harris

Piece of Time / Jewelle Gomez

Cleopatra / Barbara Chase-Riboud

Antony / Barbara Chase-Riboud

On a Night of the Full Moon / Audre Lorde

Venus Rising / Nan Saville

An Utrillo, Possibly / Dennis Brutus

Hot Missives / Letitia and Michael

Movement III from The Tomb of Sorrow / Essex Hemphill

I Have a Memory / Juanita Mitil

from Smoke, Lilies and Jade / R. Bruce Nugent

Tell Me You Love Me / Gloria Wade-Gayles

Poetica Erotica / Naomi Nelson

Godze 1783 from Valide / Barbara Chase-Riboud

405 Scott Street / Reginald Lockett

Eroticism in Sub-Saharan African Films / Françoise Pfaff

After/Play / John A. Williams.

Notes:

"September 1992"

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has label "Joanna" on front free endpaper.

ISBN:

038542308X :

9780385423083

038540381X

9780385403818

OCLC:

26160459