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First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. Gay African-American poet's third book (preceded by a chapbook and the award-winning 'Call & Response'), the seventh selection in the new California Poetry Series. From the back cover "These poems speak from Hamer's memories of his Southern childhood, weaving that time into the daily dreams and insights of his life in northern California in a continuing series of vignettes." Cover praise from Al Young, Mark Doty (who states " 'A man writes his dark body,' one poem tells us, and in fact this book inscribes exactly that: a full, breathing voice, muscular intelligence working in language that both startles and satisfies") and Toi Derricotte. 52 pp. Fine (a new copy.) .ISBN # 0-966669169 

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