Smith Tracy Introduction (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A father's funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, 'born among the Dahomey people in 1822,' who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author's grandmother. Clifton tells us about the life of an African American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, the death of her father and grandmother, but also all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Generations is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. 'I look at my husband,' Clifton writes, 'and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones.'.

First edition, first printing New and bright stiff wraps with excellent spine. Nicely illustrated with vintage photographs. Gift quality.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 7.75x5.06x0.69 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited to 300 copies. ------ No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling. A detailed account of the first forty-three titles from the Bieler Press, printed by Emily Mason at the Kutenai Press, and the first book issued from the Kutenai Press.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Oblong 4to hardcover volume gold embossed with leather spine. Binding has wear and rubbing but is intact. Endpapers are unmarked. First and last text page have a inner corner tear other 264 pages are fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reproductions Throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. 264 Pp. 13 5/8" X 10 3/4" Oblong. First Edition. High Quality Glossy Paper. Many Pages With Multiple Reproductions. Rebound In Brown Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine, Except The Title Page Was Neatly Cut In Two And Then The Edges Neatly Reattached With Clear Tape.