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Author:

Blassingame, Tia, author. author.

Title:

Black : a handbook / by Tia Blassingame.

Publisher:

Primrose Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

12 unnumbered sheets ; 22 cm

Subject:

Artists' books--New Haven--New Haven--21st century--Specimens.
American poetry--African American authors--21st century.
Black people--Poetry.
African American art--21st century.
Artists' books.
Connecticut.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Artists' books.
Unbound sheets (Binding)
Handmade papers (Paper)
Dyed papers (Paper)

Other Authors:

Primrose Press, publisher.

Notes:

Issued in an edition of 40 numbered copies, unbound and issued in a laser-engraved, lidded wooden box. Special Collections has copy number 3/40, initialed by the artist. IaU Artist-made paste paper dyed with persimmon, ash, iron oxide, and indigo, digital printing, original poetry. Each 20 x 28 cm leaf printed double-sided and folded to 20 x 14 cm. "The poems in Black: A Handbook were written over the last thirty-five years during artist residencies in New York and New Mexico, and living in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Southern California. ... Fourth in the series after Negroes: A Handbook (2015), Colored: A Handbook (2020), and African American: A Handbook (2020), Black combines digital printing in Tribeca and Optima typefaces with handmade paste papers partially dyed with persimmon juice, ash, iron oxide, and indigo."--Colophon.

Contents:

ch. 10. Courting phrasebook. ch. 2. Seahorse -- ch. 3. Poison oasis -- ch. 4. Waiting room -- ch. 5. Untitled -- ch. 6. Little man inside my chest left -- ch. 7. Lights glisten -- ch. 8. The portrait of a young black man -- ch. 9. Eartha Kitt and Orson Welles -- ch. 10. Courting phrasebook.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1341850500

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)