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Elk Grove, CA: : Sweet Rock Publications, , (2002). First edition -. Very near fine in blue and black printed wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Award-winning second collection of poems by this California author and dramatist. 106 pp.

New York:: Viking,, 1971.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine in a good only dust jacket with a diagonal tear on the front cover. . First printing. Poetry and full-color photography by Parks - a lovely book. Introduction by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. Large format, unpaginated.

Lewisburg & London: : Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses, , (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. The fifth collection by this avant-garde Black poet. A book which brings together her first book - Tree Tall Woman - with previously uncollected poems from early in her… Read more about this item

Lexington:: University Press of Kentucky,, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a good dust jacket (long tape repaired tear and small chip to back cover of dj) . First printing. Uncommon hardcover edition of this work in which Walker "blurs the lines between poetry, fiction, and history to tell the story of the Lewis and Clark… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh, PA:: University of Pittsburgh Press,, (1993). Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name inside front cover, upper corner slightly bumped).. 3rd printing, a trade paperback. Third collection of poems by this award winning writer (including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award). Cover praise from… Read more about this item

Chicago:: Third World Press,, (1991). First edition -. Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers. . First thus- a slim trade paperback. A long poem written in honor of Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela. Originally published in 1988 by her own imprint. 23 pp. Cover painting by Anna Tyler.

Chicago:: Third World Press,, (1991). First edition -. Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers. . First thus- a slim trade paperback. A simple set of "little lessons" for young people who are trying to write poetry, plus 8 poems written by Brooks for children. Originally published in 1983 by her own imprint, which was inspired by her years… Read more about this item

Chicago:: Third World Press,, (1991). First edition -. Near fine in stapled illustrated wrappers (a bit of rubbing to the covers) . First thus (originally published by David Press in 1986 ) A collection of fourteen poems by the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize. A slim chapbook. 32 pp. Cover painting by… Read more about this item

Calgary, Alberta: : Frontenac House Poetry,, (2104). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 2nd printing. The "first national anthology to focus solely on poetry by African Canadians. . . the rest of the world may be unaware of the history of enslaved Africans and slave auctions north of the 49th parallel, as well as the free Blacks, Loyalists and… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch,, (1984). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket (edgewear and short closed tears to dj.). First printing. Walker's fourth book of poetry. 79 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. The rather uncommon first book of poetry by this Black author whom The New Yorker described as "possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, and the gospel singer's depth of feeling." A small… Read more about this item

New York:: Harlem River Press,, (1990). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Award-winning poet's first collection - focused on exploring "the political realities in the lives of women" and containing many short poems on city life, homelessness, birthing as well as a long poem "rituals of… Read more about this item

Charleston, WV:: Parchment Gallery Graphics, University of Charleston,, [1998.]. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in fine portfolio.. Limited, signed edition. Broadside poem by this award-winning African American poet (nominated twice for the National Book Award, first poet-laureate of Rhode Island, among others), printed in brown ink on a single sheet of 80 pound laid text, measuring 9… Read more about this item

Chicago:: DuSable Museum,, (1984). First edition -. Fine in tan illustrated stapled wrappers.. Chapbook - first printing. A slim collection of twelve poems. Hummons was the sister of Margaret Taylor Burroughs, Chicago educator, activist, artist and one of the founders of the Du Sable Museum. 20 pp. Uncommon (only one copy located in… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) CD pocket is still unopened. . First thus. An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her… Read more about this item

Detroit:: Lotus Press, , 1985.. First edition -. Fine in stiff printed green wrappers (as new.). First printing, a slim trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. The title poem is a long historical narrative poem set in Brazil in 1741, twenty years after the destruction of the second Palmares, one of the settlements founded in that country by… Read more about this item

Detroit:: Lotus Press, , (1983.). First edition -. Near fine in stiff glossy orange wrappers (a new copy, but with sunning to spine.). First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. A collection of several narrative poems by this African American novelist - one, "The Machete Woman," tells the story of an African slave who takes refuge in a… Read more about this item

San Francisco:: City Lights Books,, (1998.). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. African American poet's third collection, comprising numbers 16 through 35 of Song of the Andoumboulou. 111 pp.

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (2010). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The third collection - and the darkest - by this award-winning African American poet. Poems with personal, sometimes wrenching, subject matter,but each written in a rigid 10-line format. Notes, 91 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA:: Carnegie Mellon University Press,, 1991.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Award-winning Black poet's fourth collection. A title in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. 85 pp.