Bittersweet : poems
Joyce Carol Thomas (Author)
"In this first offering by Joyce Carol Thomas there is a studied refusal to generalize, parody, or to merely embellish the current colloquies about the Black experience in America. Instead, she paints authentic portraits of specific family situations, sculpts telling sequences of Afro-American rituals, establishes rewarding communion with raindrops, chrysanthemum, and firefly in the painstaking attempt to frame her themes. In these pages human behaviour is real and intense; events throb with excitement; and integrity marks every line"-- Dust jacket
Print Book, English, 1973
Firesign Press, San Jose, California, 1973