Virago, 1984, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, First
Black-and-white photographic front cover with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Grace Nichols gives us images. That's led us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; posers awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. In other sequences of this collection, Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical, of the pleasures and sadness of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charted my own futures' " from the rear panel blurb. Rubbing to the book edges and book panels and to either side of the backstrip. Fading to the backstrip and there is browning of the internal text. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (6), 7-64 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0860686353. ISBN/EAN: 9780860686354. Inventory No: 0112485.
Black-and-white photographic front cover with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "Grace Nichols gives us images. That's led us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; posers awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors, to a white world that still turns its back. In other sequences of this collection, Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical, of the pleasures and sadness of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charted my own futures' " from the rear panel blurb. Rubbing to the book edges and book panels and to either side of the backstrip. Fading to the backstrip and there is browning of the internal text. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (6), 7-64 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0860686353. ISBN/EAN: 9780860686354. Inventory No: 0112485.