"nappy edges" collects poetry and poetic prose by "a writer of unusual power and resonance . . . A leading black poet [who] ranks [with] Giovanni, Baraka, Brooks, and Hughes" (Emery Lewis, "The Record"). Indeed, "nappy edges" is "extraordinary and wonderful [in its] lyric, tragic exploration into black women's loneliness . . . [Shange] writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her" (Clive Barnes, "The New York Times").
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"nappy edges" collects poetry and poetic prose by "a writer of unusual power and resonance . . . A leading black poet [who] ranks [with] Giovanni, Baraka, Brooks, and Hughes" (Emery Lewis, "The Record"). Indeed, "nappy edges" is "extraordinary and wonderful [in its] lyric, tragic exploration into black women's loneliness . . . [Shange] writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her" (Clive Barnes, "The New York Times").
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Good jacket. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In edgeworn jacket with small tears and a long closed tear of one & 1/2 inch length top edge near fore-edge. Blue cloth covered spine with silver lettering. And amber paper colored boards. Pale blue end papers. Tightly bound. [148 pages]
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Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Good only with staining on the front board, foxing on the page edges, and slightly bowed boards in a very good dust jacket with internal staining, short tears, and creasing.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Slim Octavo. vi + 148 pp, solo poetry interspersed with prose reflection. 6.1" x 9.5" 1/4 blue cloth backed & pale orange papered boards, in DJ clipped with faded spine, in protector.
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Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover quiet worn and soiled. Some page soiling. Inscribed by author and dated and signed twice by previous owner. 148 p. This spirited celebration of the African-American soul breathes new life in the rhythmic poetry of beats and movements for which she is renowned. Winner of the Tony Award and the Obie Award for "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange's poetry is considered some of the most influential in African-American culture.
