The complete works of Pat Parker /

The complete works of Pat Parker /

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Author / Creator:Parker, Pat, 1944-1989, author.
Uniform title:Works. 2016
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Brookville, NY : A Midsummer Nights Press ; Dover, FL : Sinister Wisdom, Inc., 2016.
Description:487 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Sapphic classics
Sinister wisdom, 0196-1853 ; 102
Sinister wisdom ; 102.
Sapphic classics.
Subject:
Lesbians -- Poetry.
African American lesbians -- Poetry.
African American lesbians.
Lesbians.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11000892
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Other authors / contributors:Enszer, Julie R., 1970- editor.
ISBN:9781938334221
1938334221
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-480).
Text in English.
Summary:"During her lifetime, Pat Parker was a renowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer. She was the author of Jonestown & Other Madness (1985), Movement in Black (1978, 1983, 1989, 1999), Womanslaughter (1978), Pit Stop (1974, 1975), and Child of Myself (1972, 1974). Her poems appeared in numerous journals, newspapers, and anthologies. With Judy Grahn, she recorded the album Where Would I Be Without You (Olivia Records, 1976), and one of her spoken poems appeared on the album Lesbian Concentrate.."--Publisher's description.
Table of Contents:
  • Coming On Strong: A Legacy of Pat Parker
  • Movement in Black
  • Foreword
  • Married
  • Goat Child
  • For Donna
  • [Sometimes my husband]
  • Fuller Brush Day
  • [To see a man cry]
  • You can't be sure of anything these days
  • Exodus
  • A Moment Left Behind
  • From Deep Within
  • Liberation Fronts
  • [My hands are big]
  • [from cavities of bones]
  • [Brother]
  • [Have you ever tried to hid?]
  • [In English Lit.,]
  • [My heart is fresh cement,]
  • Dialogue
  • [With the sun]
  • For Michael on His Third Birthday
  • A Family Tree
  • Sunday
  • Pied Piper
  • [I wonder]
  • Where do you go to become a non-citizen?
  • [I am a child of America]
  • To My Vegetarian Friend
  • For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend
  • [Tour America!]
  • [I'm so tired]
  • The What Liberation Front?
  • Snatches of a Day
  • [Boots are being polished]
  • Questions
  • [I have a dream]
  • Movement in Black
  • Movement in Black
  • Being Gay
  • [Move in darkness]
  • [My lover is a woman]
  • Cop-out
  • For Willyce
  • Best Friends
  • Pit Stop
  • [When i drink]
  • For the Straight Folks (Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So Blatant
  • My Lady Ain't No Lady
  • Non-monogamy Is A Pain in the Butt
  • Love Poems
  • [Love]
  • [Let me come to you naked]
  • [I have a solitary lover]
  • I Kumquat You
  • A Small Contradiction
  • [I wish that i could hate you]
  • [Bitch!]
  • [Sitting here,]
  • [If it were possible]
  • I Have
  • On Jealousy
  • [As you entered]
  • Metamorphosis
  • Para Maria Sandra
  • Gente
  • Group
  • The Law
  • Woman slaughter
  • Autumn Morning
  • [when i was a child]
  • [There is a woman in this town]
  • New Work
  • Great God
  • Between the Light
  • Sublimation
  • Massage
  • Reputation
  • Progeny
  • It's Not So Bad
  • For Audre
  • Funny
  • Jonestown & Other Madness
  • Foreword
  • Love isn't
  • Bar conversation
  • My brother
  • Georgia, georgia georgia on my mind
  • One thanksgiving day
  • Aftermath
  • Breaking up
  • Maybe i should have been a teacher
  • Child's play
  • Jonestown
  • Legacy
  • Prose
  • The Demonstrator
  • Autobiography Chapter One
  • Shoes
  • Mama and the Hogs
  • Revolution: It's Not Neat or Pretty or Quick
  • Poetry at Women's Music Festivals: Oil and Water
  • Gay Parenting, Or, Lookout, Anita
  • The 1987 March on Washington: The Morning Rally
  • Two Plays
  • Hard Time
  • Pinochle
  • Restored Poems
  • From Child of Myself
  • Assassination
  • Ice Cream Blues
  • From Pit Stop
  • To an Unlabelled
  • Uncollected Poems: 1960s
  • The Mirror
  • Of Life
  • [I have seen death]
  • To a Friend
  • City Song
  • Not a Good Night
  • To a Poet, dead
  • Please you all
  • Two Faces of Black
  • Gold Stars & Hollow Bags
  • [A sea hawk soars above my head.]
  • Confrontation
  • Berkeley '66
  • A Voice from Watts
  • Poem to my Mother
  • Costume Party
  • Soldier's boots are
  • With Love to Lyndon
  • White folks
  • Summer
  • From the Wars
  • To a Deaf Poet
  • [Two people walk]
  • [Why burn a candle in daylight?]
  • Going to the bridge now
  • [All]
  • [The streets]
  • [There are so many bags to fall in]
  • Uncollected Poems: 1970s
  • Speech by a Black Nationalist to a white Audience
  • Growing Up
  • Fleshy Soft Sea
  • [I will not always be with you]
  • [not by chance]
  • Transit Lady
  • A Woman's Love
  • "Good morning, Mrs. Parker. Are you interested in working?"
  • [I have seen]
  • To Lynda
  • [From my bedroom window]
  • Sunday Morning
  • To Tamara (Tami) Kallen
  • Gente
  • Cop took my hand
  • Anatomy of a Pig
  • [Limericks]
  • Agua Riseuño
  • Poem #4 for Ann
  • Poem for Ann #5
  • [I must learn]
  • [Lady,]
  • Well, i got the menstrual blues
  • My baby's a bass player
  • [I fell in love some time ago]
  • A Walk
  • [She comes to me-tentative]
  • Sister
  • [Every once in a while]
  • Does This Make Sense
  • [At first, I]
  • Just Exactly What Is It That You Want
  • Uncollected Poems: 1980s
  • [I have a lover]
  • [Once it was said-]
  • I'm Still Waiting To Be Pinched
  • For Wayne
  • I hear a train a coming
  • Reflections on a March
  • Sweet Sweet Jimmy
  • Sweet Sweet Prince Jimmy
  • The Long Lost Ones
  • To My Straight Sister
  • Words
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • (I remember-]
  • Timothy Lee
  • (Little Billy Tipton]
  • [We're the Dunham-Parker's from Pleasant Hill]
  • [It's not so bad]
  • (There are those]
  • Trying to do how mama did can un Do you
  • Note from the Editor
  • End Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix: Tables of Contents
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