signed first edition Hard Cover
1999 · New York
by Sapphire
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x0x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed and dated "10/1/99" by author with heart doodle and no inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. xii, 129 pp. Alive with the emotional honesty and intellectual force for which Sapphire has been admired as both a writer and a performance artist, these forty-seven poems take us into America's past and present, bearing testimony to the black experience in a country fragmented by war, racism, and urban and domestic violence. They tell the story of a search for the complicated spiritual path back to one's roots, a story of family, race, and self-transformation. A provocative book that astonishes by the power of its language. (Inventory #: 2282435)