Pat Parker -- that revolutionary, raw and as they used to say, "right-on sister" -- would be celebrating her fifty-fifth birthday in 1999 had she not died of breast cancer ten years ago. To honor her work and call attention to the significance of her contributions, Firebrand Books is publishing a new, expanded edition of her classic, Movement In Black. With an incisive introduction by Cheryl Clarke, celebrations/ remembrances/tributes from ten outstanding African American women writers, and a dozen previously unpublished ...
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Pat Parker -- that revolutionary, raw and as they used to say, "right-on sister" -- would be celebrating her fifty-fifth birthday in 1999 had she not died of breast cancer ten years ago. To honor her work and call attention to the significance of her contributions, Firebrand Books is publishing a new, expanded edition of her classic, Movement In Black. With an incisive introduction by Cheryl Clarke, celebrations/ remembrances/tributes from ten outstanding African American women writers, and a dozen previously unpublished pieces, Movement In Black is a must read/ must have on your book shelf. Whether she was presenting her poetry on street corners, performing with other women -- writers, musicians, activists -- in bars and auditoriums, rallying the crowd at political events, preaching to the converted, or converting the ill-informed, Pat Parker was a presence. She wrote about gut issues: the lives of ordinary Black people, violence, loving women, the legacy of her African American heritage, being queer. She was a woman who engaged life fully, both personally and as a political activist, linking the struggles for racial, gender, sexual, and class equality long before it was "PC" to do so. She died as she lived -- fighting forces larger than herself. The publication of Movement In Black is an opportunity, both for those who were around the first time and those who are new to her work, to experience and enjoy Pat Parker's power.
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Edition:
2nd printing (stated), but first Crossing Press printing
Publisher:
Crossing Press
Published:
1983
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17688234523
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Seller's Description:
B&W illustrations. Good. The Collectd Poetry o Pat Parker 1961-1978. 3H. This Crossing Press edition scarce. (Firebrand reissue of 1990 used same isbn. ) Copyright page states "1st Printing 1978, Diana Press...2nd Printing 1983, Crossing Press." "Good only" because although the binding is tight with uncreased spine, and there are no markings, ***the book has a lot of foxing*** on the covers, on the page edges (the fore-edge is stained), and a little on the first and last couple pages. Some wear to extremities.
