My one good nerve : rhythms, rhymes, reasons / by Ruby Dee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dee, Ruby, author.

Contributor:

Davis, Ossie, writer of introduction.

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

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social life and customs--Poetry.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social life and customs--Fiction.

African Americans--Social conditions--Poetry.

African Americans--Social conditions--Fiction.

Black people--Race identity--Poetry.

Black people.

Black people--Race identity--Fiction.

Women, Black--Conduct of life--Poetry.

Women, Black.

Women, Black--Conduct of life--Fiction.

American poetry.

Short stories, American.

Conduct of life.

Black people--Race identity.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

American poetry.

American fiction.

Fiction.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Third World Press, 1986.

Contents:

Part I. Rooby Goose

Part II. Short Shorts

Part III. Poems Perhaps

Part IV. Salutes.

Notes:

"Cover Design by Bill Day."

Introduction (pages xiii-xiv) by Ossie Davis.

"Many of the bits, pieces, poems and short stories included here have been performed on campuses, in a few theatres, on television, for friends, for benefits, funerals or just for fun ... Most of the material was written to be expressed aloud."--Preface.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

088378114X

9780883781142

0883781158

9780883781159

OCLC:

15192233