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Hand Dance - Wanda Coleman 1993 Black Sparrow Press 9780876858974- Clean crisp-Oversize paperback in good shape lightly read small amount of minutia small amount of minutiae on its edges interior on unmarked interior- spine un creased just the slightest amount of sun from shelving on its spine cover photo Leigh Wiener black Sparrow press Santa Rosa California 1993 copyright by author- Poems and prose of Coleman's sixth book, Hand Dance, show a wry political awareness ("inside this poor person is a rich one / struggling to come out"), a streetwise knowledge of what it means to be black in urban American ("in the world i come from / violence is a language and a bullet / sudden insight"), as well as a heady sensuality.- Review- Coleman's poems are an act of liberation, meant to be experienced as something almost physical, like a punch or a whipping . . . She wants her language to express anger, to incite anger, and to shake all those who read it out of their complacency. --The Nation -Wanda Coleman: 2012… Read More

Laura ChesterThe Stone BabyISBN-13: 978-0876857755, ISBN-10: 0876857756Over sized paperback- yellow cover some scuffs on its covers not completely clean book appears to be lightly read- pretty green end papers neat illustrations -Black Sparrow books Santa Rosa California 1989 copyright author-- -As her marriage gradually breaks down, Julia realizes that her husband has been living a secret life.Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encounter with Philip Mercato, a smooth-talking divorced Manhattan stockbroker. Julia is swept away on the wings of money and charm to a world of compulsive sensuality - a world that comes to a sudden, sobering end when she finds that she is pregnant. Laura Chester precisely charts the evolution of a doomed… Read More