Healing Heart: Poems 1973-1988 - Softcover

Hull, Gloria T.; Gibbs, Michele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0913175161 ISBN 13: 9780913175163

Publisher: Inland Womensource, 1989

Synopsis

This book of poems is a total delight-elegant, passionate, witty, humorous, bawdy, caring, and intelligent.

About this title

From Library Journal:

In this richly passionate volume, deeply rooted in a feminist vision, Hull deals with the way one's identity evolves through social and cultural as well as personal (though certainly universal) experience: "we love in circles/ touching round--/ faces in a ritual ring/ echoing blood and color/ nappy girlheads in a summer porch swing/ belligerent decisions to live/ and be ourselves." Here the language is sparse and at the same time suggestive. Like the poems of Ntozake Shange, Hull's affirm a relationship between the social self and the inner self, while courageously examining truths such as our common conditions: "I got some real big troubles/ So I sing these imitation blues/ I got trouble, trouble, trouble/That's why I sing the blues./ If I could play me a guitar/ I'd go and spread the news."-- Lenard D. Moore, Writer-in-Residence, Wake Cty. Arts Council, N.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Inland Womensource
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0913175161
• ISBN 13: 9780913175163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140