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Woman writing a letter / Valerie Jean.
LIBRA - Rare PS3560.E18 W65 1991 Banks copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jean, Valerie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Jean, Valerie (autograph) (Banks Collection copies 1-3).
- Local Subjects:
- Jean, Valerie (autograph) (Banks Collection copies 1-3).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collections copies 1-3)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 26 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : ARTSCAPE, 1991.
- Contents:
- First Remembrance
- Newborn
- The Fire Tower
- Sowing Seed (to my daughter)
- Woman Writing a Letter
- Scar
- For Victims (for j)
- Oh Sylvia
- Wanting, not Wanting
- What It Feels Like
- The Madness
- Mice in the Basement
- At Full Moon
- Why I Stopped Cooking
- Psalm of Empowerment (for Audre Lorde)
- From Here to There (for gk)
- A Leaf Falling
- Woman in the Branches
- Notes:
- "This book was designed by Janice Washofsky ... Cover illustration by Bill Camp. Printed in an edition of two hundred and fifty at the Curry Copy Center in Baltimore, Maryland, June 1991."--Colophon.
- Winner pf ARTSCAPE Literary Arts Award for Poetry, 1991.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1-3 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copies 1-3 have"From a" written in ms. before the title and autographed.
- Banks Collection copy 1 inscribed "To Mary Banks - Thanks for your support, especially your wonderful daughter. Keep your dreams alive. Be happy. Be free! Valerie Jean 9/15/91".
- Banks Collection copy 1 has 3 additional poems (Shortly after the Death of Huey Newton by Charles Curtis Blackwell and Sowing Seed (to my daughter by Valerie Russell printed on 2 pages and Poetsong by Valerie Jean printed on a card) laid in.
- Banks Collection copy 3 inscribed "To Joanna - Sister-friend, may all your dreams take you to where you want to go. Thank you for your support, for your presence in my life. Love, you Valerie".
- OCLC:
- 166908666
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