Presenting...Sister NoBlues (1988 Firebrand Press edition)
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edition of: Presenting...Sister NoBlues (work)
title page transcription: [line] | presenting... | Sister | No Blues | [line] | by hattie gossett | [publisher's device] | Firebrand | Books | Ithaca, New York
printing statement transcription: Printed on acid-free paper in the United States by McNaughton and Gunn
copyright statement transcription: Copyright (c) 1988 by Hattie Gossett
acknowledgment statement transcription: [1] i didn't make a list of the names of the people whose support for this book demands acknowledgement cuz i was scared i might slip up and forget somebody and get myself in a big mess of trouble. however i will say that this first book of mine which includes materials written between 1975&1988 comes to you as a live&direct result of the energies of many people.
acknowledgment statement transcription: [2] in fact you wouldn't even be holding this book in your hands right now dear reader had it not been for the longtime friends support group sisters students&colleagues the therapist wimmin writers new friends various underground renegades the literary agent the tipster & the publisher who at one time or another read&commented on the individual pieces as they were written
acknowledgment statement transcription: [3] who read&commented on the manuscript as it passed through several incarnations. i mean the people who affirmed assured stroked soothed prayed for put up with needled annoyed laughed at infuriated fell out with ignored forgot about cajoled pushed understood encouraged appreciated reflected &reaffirmed me as i went through my changes with this book
acknowledgment statement transcription: [4] to all of them i am everlastingly grateful and can think of no better way of expressing my gratitude than by repeating these words from sly stone: | i wanna | thank you | for letting me |be myself | again.
ISBN: 0932379508
ISBN: 0932379494
published by: Firebrand Books
printed by: McNaughton & Gunn (organization)
designer: Mary A. Scott
designer: Wendy Kenigsberg
designer: Bets Ltd.
writer of introduction: hattie gossett
extent statement: [9], 10-143 pages
content: appendix
content: introduction
content: epigraph
format: book
indexed status: fully indexed
ornamentation: publisher's device
included work: Dear Landlord (work)
included work: Labor Relations #1 (work)
included work: Subway Poems (work)
included work: Labor Relations #2 & #3 (work)
included work: Nite at the Fantasy Factory (work)
included work: At the Convention/Uncle Sam the Song and the Danceman (work)
included work: Kingg Kongg! (work)
included work: Lunchcounter Conversation Overheard/Commentary (work)
included work: Remember the Gogo? (work)
included work: Bruddah Da Dreadlocks Dont Belong to You (work)
included work: Yo Daddy (work)
included work: 21st Century Black Warrior Wimmins Chant (work)
included work: Soul Looks Back in Wonder (work)
included work: Seems Like We Could (work)
included work: Womanmansion (work)
included work: Sister NoBlues (work)
included work: Colored Pussy (work)
included work: Cleaning Woman/Labor Relations #4 (work)
included work: Dreadlock Office Temp/Labor Relations #5 (work)
included work: Mammy (work)
included work: New York City Winter Poem (work)
included work: Kids Throwing Stones (work)
included work: On the Question of Fans (work)
included work: In Barbados (work)
included work: Dakar/Samba (work)
included work: Fragment #5 (work)
included work: World View (work)
included work: Dakar/Samba (translated work)
description: 1988 edition published by Firebrand Press in Ithaca, New York