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LPs, (or, Recordings of one journey through a grief) / by Valerie Jean.
LIBRA - Rare PS3560.E365 J43 1998 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jean, Valerie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women authors.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--Women authors.
- African American women poets.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (Banks Collection copy)
- Jean, Valerie (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 31 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Long Playing, or, Recordings of one journey through a grief
- LPs
- Recordings of one journey through a grief
- Place of Publication:
- [Glenn Dale, MD?] : [self-published?], 1998.
- Contents:
- 1st Attempt
- Second Try: Two Haiku
- Third Thought
- Number 4 is Curious
- At five, the argument
- Sixth One
- 7th meaning
- Eight for Fate
- Stuck at 9
- To the tenth power (and finished)
- 11 times I try
- A Dozen Sorrows
- 13th Hour
- Memory #14
- 15th Shot
- Equation 16
- Seventeen Lines (and spaces)
- At 18, Grief
- Winter Blues/19
- Twenty Toasts to the Truth
- 21 and Afraid
- 22nd revelation
- 23rd Mercy
- On Crying for 24 Days
- At 25, no more tears
- 26 and Still at Loss.
- Notes:
- Possible place of publication and imprint information from back cover recto.
- Pagination includes front and back covers.
- "c. 1998 Valerie Jean All Rights Reserved"; title page verso.
- Printed on lavender paper with gray illustrated wrapper.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy inscribed "Joanna - Very hard poems to read, but so necessary to write. Thanks for the support and your friendship. Love & peace, Valerie".
- OCLC:
- 50647662
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