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Black: a handbook

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Contents

ch. 1. Human -- ch. 2. Seahorse -- ch. 3. Poison oasis -- ch. 4. Waiting room -- ch. 5. Untitled -- ch. 6. Little man inside my chest -- ch. 7. Lights glisten -- ch. 8. The portrait of a young black man -- ch. 9. Ertha Kitt and Orson Welles -- ch. 10. Courting phrasebook.

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    New Haven, Connecticut: Primrose Press, 2022

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    • Artists' book.
    • "Fourth in the series after Negores: 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.
    • Edition limited to 40 numbered copies signed by the artist.
    • "The poems in Black: A Handbook were written over the last thirty-five years ..."--Colophon.
    • Poems.
    • Each poem is printed on a separate bifoliate paste paper sheet.

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