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Blue heat : a portfolio of poems & drawings / Alexis De Veaux.
LIBRA - Rare PS3554.E927 B6 1985 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Veaux, Alexis, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity--United States--Poetry.
- Ethnicity.
- Black people--Race identity--Poetry.
- Black people.
- Civilization.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Africa--Civilization--Poetry.
- Africa.
- United States.
- Genre:
- American poetry.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)
- De Veaux, Alexis, 1948- (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 portfolio (48 pages) : illustrations ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Diva Publishing Associates, 1985.
- Contents:
- Altars: The Altar of Liberation; Rooms; Praise Song for My Sister Rose; A Poem for the Day of Your Wedding; Reception; Madeleine's Dreads; Physical Therapy
- Blue Heat: Are There No More Prophets; Cheese Poem; In Any Language, Bread with Dignity; Cutting the Pattern of this Dream; But: who got the wings in Atlanta; ... And Then She Said; The Woman Who Lives in the Botanical Gardens; Don't Panic I Said; Everyone is Nicaragua; If They Come for You; One Letter Alphabet Song; Modern Day Living is Hard on Black Women
- Electrified Magnets: Cuntery; Travel Bug; Death of an Idol; La Luna de mi Corazon; Twilight; Camp-itis; Complications of the Heart; Hangin Tuff; New Body: New Life:
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy inscribed "To Joanna with thanks! Alexis Nov/85".
- OCLC:
- 13244608
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