In this collection of articles, essays, interviews and columns, Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles' noted satirist, poet, and journalist, recounts three decades of the growth of her city and herself. Originally written for the Los Angeles Times , L.A. Weekly , The Free Press and other publications, Ms. Coleman called these pieces "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory." We find the author laboring as waitress, bartender, editor of a ...
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In this collection of articles, essays, interviews and columns, Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles' noted satirist, poet, and journalist, recounts three decades of the growth of her city and herself. Originally written for the Los Angeles Times , L.A. Weekly , The Free Press and other publications, Ms. Coleman called these pieces "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory." We find the author laboring as waitress, bartender, editor of a sleazy men's magazine--caught up in militant revolutionary politics and witnessing even more violent social upheaval in the form of the Watts and Rodney King riots. As Publisher's Weekly noted, "Her extraordinary eye for detail and personal perspective universalizes her experience and makes her observations both trenchant and reliable."
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Seller's Description:
Very good. Tight, square, uncreased spine has some sunning. Clean, unmarked interior. Some light wear to the covers, including lightly bumped corners and very gentle edge-wear. Author photo by Susan Carpendale. Coleman, who once described herself as a 'Usually Het Interracially Married Los Angeles-based African American Womonist Matrilinear Working Class Poor Pink/White Collar College Drop-out Baby Boomer Earth Mother and Closet Smoker Unmolested-by-her-father', was described by others as 'the L.A. Blueswoman' and 'the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles'. This collection includes a variety of her prose and is packaged in BSP's influential octavo format, with baby blue end-sheets and signature matte covers, courtesy of the press's untrained design virtuoso, Barbara Martin. 292 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
