To: Ron Buckmire <ron@abacus.oxy.edu>
From: lambda@clark.net (Deacon Maccubbin)

BOOKS ON THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LESBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL EXPERIENCE

(Note: This list was culled from the Lambda Rising database by a good --
but not perfect -- search algorithm. Undoubtedly, there are titles that are
not included, and it is possible that some listed titles would more
appropriately be included on lists of other genres. Use this list as a
guide, not a bible.)

ABOUT COURAGE; Fleming, Mickey C.; $3.95; The saga of a child trapped by
the circumstances of his birth and how the city of Washington, D.C.
directed his upbringing. It is filled with energy, kindness, insight, and
laughter, but strewn with the seeds of social disintegration; an
explanation, of the genesis of "the Black Underclass." An exciting account
of how stumbling blocks can be turned into stepping stones.

AFRICAN CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS OF THE DIVINE; Davis, ed. Kortright and Elias
Farajaje-Jones; $19.95; Elias Farajaje-Jones (who is Gay), assured me that
gay men and lesbians are an integral and often a very strong part in most
African religions. This book covers African images and religious
traditions, as well as the transported versions that appear in the Western
Hemisphere (Santeria, Candomble, Shango, Voodoo, etc.), and covers the
continuing spiritual and cultural linkages between the two worlds.

AIN'T I A WOMAN: BLACK WOMEN AND FEMINISM; hooks, bell; $12.00; Hooks
theorizes on the need for an autonomous movement to support the right of
Black women and to push for change concerning the issues of racism, sexism
and societal oppression that has victimized Black women historically in
this country since the days of slavery. Black male attitudes of sexist
oppression receive dialogue.

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES; Angelou, Maya; $9.00; (no
description available)

AMEN CORNER; Baldwin, James; $5.99; Vibrant with the music and energy of
America's black church and bristling with the pain and anger of America's
racial injustice. This is a riveting, unforgettable drama. Razor sharp
dialogue peels away the public image of the charismatic preacher Sister
Margaret to display a wounded woman's heart.

AMERICAN DREAMS; Sapphire; $10.99; Through a series of prose and poetry
works she addresses issues of family violence, urban decay, spiritual
renewal, the wilding incident in Central Park as seen through the eyes of
the perpetrators, incest, the Latasha Harlan murder in L.A., and other
areas of African American life today. Her work transcends these harsh
realities and finds hope and inspiration as guiding principles.

AMERICAN SEXUAL POLITICS: SEX, GENDER, AND RACE SINCE THE CIVIL WAR; Fout,
John and Maura Tantillo; $17.95; In this collection of sixteen essays, the
shifting tensions between sexual reform and repression are seen in
historical explorations of men's and women's sexuality, of the
sexual-social dynamics of lesbians and gay men, of the violent repression
of African-American sexuality. Includes essays by Lillian Faderman on the
return of the butch-femme, Arthur Flannigan Saint Aubin on black gay male
discourse and Katherine Cummings on teaching AIDS.

ANOTHER COUNTRY; Baldwin, James; $12.00; Baldwin sets the scenes of his
novel in Manhatten and Harlem. Men and women, Black and white are shed of
class, race, gender, color to reveal raw passion, emotion and sensuality.
Considered one of the most revealing hard core and honest portrayals of
urban decadence and degradation to ever be portrayed especially by a Black
American author.

APARTHEID USA; Lorde, Audre; $3.50; (no description available)

AT THE CLUB; Miller, Alan; $6.00; (no description available)

B.B. AND THE DIVA; Kinnard, Rupert; $6.95; Meet the Brown Bomber, a young
African-American superheros and his best friend, a reincarnated
African-American, lesbonic vegetarian, feminist educator, as they confront
George Bush, the Pope, Jesse Hlems,and others with an ageless form of
therapy known as "slapthology," in this lively antidote to the white world
of the Sunday comics.

B-BOY BLUES; Hardy, James Earl; $9.95; Mitchell Crawford always wished and
dreamed for a Ruffneck, a hiphop loving, street struttin, crotch grabbin
brotha. And he finally finds one in Raheim Rivers, who is a vision of lust:
six feet tall and 215 pounds of mocha-chocolate muscle. Mitchell know
Raheim will take him for a walk on the wild side, especially between the
sheets. But he doesn't count on getting behind Raheim's mask and finding
someone he can love.

BAILEY'S CAFE; Naylor, Gloria; $11.00; Welcome to the most mythically real
eating place in an urban backwater. It draws a wide variety of customers:
Sadie, addicted to alcohol and cleanliness; Eve, the fresh flower madame;
Peaches, with the marred face and goddess-like body; Jesse, whose love for
a woman cannot overcome her love of heroine; Miss Maple, the transvestite
who enters contests; and Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer
of a miracle.

BEST OF SIMPLE; HUGHES,LANGSTON; $9.95; (no description available)

BIG SEA; Hughes, Langston; $14.00; First volume of his autobiography of his
first thirty years. From his birth in Joplin, MO, his abandonment by his
father, the constant moving with his mother, his years at Columbia, the
Lincoln University, living in Paris, and his rise to one of the central
figures of Harlem's Black Renaissance.

BLACK BACK-UPS; Rushin, Kate; $8.95; This collection captures the faces,
voices, feelings, words, and stories of an African-American family, people
in the neighborhood and town where she grew up, as well as the people in
her life who have helped to sustain her.

BLACK BOOK; Mapplethorpe, Robert; $24.95; This volume presents an
astonishing photo study of black men today. In their diversity, impact,
subtlety, technical virtuosity, erotic appeal, and deep humanity, this
collection is a stunning celebration of the contemporary black male.

BLACK BUTTERFLIES; Gordon, John; $11.95; Wesley and Floyd were teenage
tearaways in South London, best mates with a strong erotic charge sparking
just below the surface. Floyd's tragic death brought Wesley together with
Sharon, Floyd's girlfriend, each drawn by the other's pain into a marriage
based on illusion and self-deceit. As their relationship fails, Wesley
flees and meets Paul a young painter trying to overcome his white foster
parents and cling to his art.

BLACK HEROES: 7 PLAYS; Hill, Errol ed.; $12.95; Here for the first time in
one volume are plays--many of which have been unavailable for
decades--which pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement
and equality from the days of slavery to the era of civil rights. The full
scope of their dramas becomes a tableau vivante of black history.

BLACK LESBIAN IN WHITE AMERICA; Cornwall, Anita; $7.95; A collection of
writing analyzing racial and sexual oppression from a political
perspective. Written long before current thought. Cornwall is a pioneer.

BLACK LESBIANS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; Roberts, J.R.; $5.95;
Categorizes and describes those books, periodicals, records, and more that
make up the core of the black lesbian experience. A valuable addition to
any lesbian library.

BLACK LOOKS: RACE AND REPRESENTATION; hooks, bell; $14.00; In these eleven
new essays, black feminist author hooks digs ever deeper into the personal
and political consequences of contemporary representations of race and
ethnicity with a white supremicists culture.

BLACK MEN-WHITE MEN: A GAY ANTHOLOGY; Smith, ed. by Michael J.; $14.95;
Blacks and whites as friends and lovers. Short stories as well as poems,
art, etc.

BLACK SOUTHERN VOICES; Killens, ed. by John Oliver and Jerry Ward Jr.;
$15.00; An anthology of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama and critical
essays that celebrates the richly textured black voices of the South, their
cadences steeped in the sonorous heritage of the oral tradition. It is an
exciting collection that brings together dozens of distinguished names from
Zora Neale to Nikki Giovanni to Richard Wright.

BLACK THEOLOGY: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY VOL. 2: 1980-1992; Cone, James H. and
Gayraud Wilmore; $18.95; A collection of essays discussing black theology
and spirituality also includes essays about black gays and lesbians,
bisexuality,womanist theology, and other issues of interest today.

BLACK WOMAN'S GUMBO YA-YA: QUOTATIONS BY BLACK WOMEN; Jewell, Terri;
$10.95; Thoughts, observations, viewpoints, songs, poetry, dreams, jazz
lyrics, and proverbs from 350 black women the world over. These women are
survivors, rulers, thinkers, warriors, lovers, and movers and shakers.

BLACK WOMEN: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME; Prescod-Roberts, Margaret; $2.95;
>From Barbados to Brooklynm from Jamaica to Bristol, two accounts of
girlhood in the West Indies, the upheaval of leaving and the conflicts of
being an American immigrant.

BLACK WOMEN TALK POETRY; Black Womantalk; $6.95; Black Womantalk publishing
collective proudly presents its first publication, an anthology covering
the works of twenty black women.

BLACKBIRD; Duplechan, Larry; $7.95; It was a month to remember for Johnnie
Ray Rousseau, a gay black high school boy: it was the month Todd Waterson,
high-school hero and all-around hunk, got the baptist minister's daughter
pregnant, the month sweet Cherie Barker, his girlfriend, decided the time
had come for them to make love, the month he met Marshall MacNeill, surely
the sexiest man ever to walk the earth. And, of course, the month of his
exorcism.

BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE; Baldwin, James; $4.95; Unforgettable contemporary
drama of murder and palpable racism. Bristles with fierce intensity, love,
and humanity. A piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.

BOM-CRIOULO: THE BLACK MAN AND THE CABIN BOY; Caminha, Adolfo; $7.95; First
English translation of a controversial novel tracing the relationship
between a mature black man and a boy of 15, a relationship which develops
during their service in the Brazilian navy of the late 19th century.

BREAKING BREAD: INSURGENT BLACK INTELLECTUAL LIFE; hooks, bell and Cornel
West; $14.00; In this captivating dialogue, hooks and West grapple with the
dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. Creating a
spiritual, progressive, feminist, and ultimately organic definition of
Black intellectuality, they discuss issues ranging from theology and the
Left, to contemporary poplar culture.

BROTHER TO BROTHER; Hemphill, Essex; $8.95; "Black men loving Black men is
a call to action. . . We Take care of our own kind when the night grows
cold and silent."--late editor Joseph Beam.This new anthology of fiction,
essays, and poetry by black gay men includes contributions from Assotto
Saint, Craig Harris, Melvin Dixon, Marlon Riggs, and many newer writers.

BURST OF LIGHT; Lorde, Audre; $7.95; Audre Lorde - black poet, lesbian, and
mother - illuminates living life to the fullest in the presence of death.
Courageous, wise, and once again battling cancer, she uses the dailiness of
her life as the material for her own transformation.

CANCER JOURNALS; Lorde, Audre; $7.00; 1981 Winner: Gay Book of the Year,
American library Association

CAPTAIN SWING; Duplechan, Larry; $15.95; Johnnie Ray Rousseau's life is at
its lowest ebb. The love of his life was killed in a hit-and-run, and now
he's been called to the deathbed of his hateful, homophobic father. There
he meets Nigel, his second cousin, who looks like mortal sin in Levi's and
a tank top, and who offers a love that Johnnie is none too sure he ought to
accept.

CENTURY OF THE BEST BLACK AMERICAN SHORT STORIES: A CENTURY OF THE BEST;
Clarke, ed. by John Henrik; $10.95; A broad collection of writings
including Zora Neale, Langston, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker,
James McPherson, Chester Himes and Frank Yerby.

CEREMONIES; Hemphill, Essex; $10.00; A collection of prose and poetry
exploring the experience of being a black gay man, Featuring both published
pieces and work that has never before appeared in print, it is the only
available collection of writing by one of the gay community's most
prominent artists.

CHANGE OF TERRITORY; Dixon, Melvin; $7.95; Dixon's first book of poems
covers much ground in historical and personal experiences through the
language of exile and return, and a search for love and selfhood.

CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN: COUNSELING STRATEGIES AND
COMMUNITY I; Bell, Peter; $4.95; Addiction and community service
professionals will find guidance for working with African-American clients
and communities in this thought-provoking booklet.

CHILDREN OF APARTNESS; Upton, Elaine; $10.00; a Baltimore poetess who says
she is a lesbian and so is her poetry.

COFFEE WILL MAKE YOU BLACK; Sinclair, April; $19.95; A sensitive honest
portrayal of young Stevie Stevenson who is experiencing the pangs of being
an African-American teenager in the early-to-mid sixties. It is also a time
when Stevie is becoming aware of her sexuality and realizing that she is
more attracted to the school nurse than the boy she is dating.

COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES; Hughes, Langston; $30.00; A complete
collection, 8960 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America
during four turbulent decades.

COLOR OF THE HEART: WRITING FROM STRUGGLE & CHANGE 1959-1990; Sherman,
Susan; $10.95; (no description available)

COLOR OF TREES; Parker, Canaan; $8.95; Peter, a black scholarship student
from Harlem, takes life too seriously at his new, mostly white boarding
school. There he meets T.J., a wellborn but hyperactive imp with little use
for clothing. Here, in his first novel, Parker explores the formation of
both racial and homosexual identities, and the conflicts created by the
narrator's dual allegiance.

COLOR PURPLE; Walker, Alice; $5.99; The wondrous Pulitzer Prize winning
novel, now a major motion picture! A story of two sisters, one a missionary
in Africa and the other a child wife in the South, that breaks ground in
its portrayal of the bonding of women.

COLOR, SEX, AND POETRY; Hull, Gloria T.; $12.95; Biographical study of
three Harlem Renaissance poets-Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dinbar-Nelson
and Georgia Douglas Johnson. Relying on unpublished letters, diaries and
manuscripts, this study provides a radical reassessment of these important
authors.

COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE STATEMENT: BLACK FEMINIST ORGANIZING IN THE 70s
AND 80; Combahee River Collective; $3.25; (no description available)

COMMON DIFFERENCES: CONFLICTS IN BLACK AND WHITE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES;
Joseph, Gloria and Jill Lewis; $14.00; (no description available)

COMPLETE COLLECTED POEMS OF MAYA ANGELOU; Angelou, Maya; $23.00; This
volume collects all of the poems previously published in book form: Just
Give Me a Cool Drink of Water, Oh Pray My Wings Gonna Fit Me Well, And
Still I Rise, Shaker, and many others.

CONCENTRIC CIRCLES; Morgan, Ron; $3.00; Born in Washington, D.C. in 1942
and blind since 1964, Morgan writes historical folklore from city life with
a pithy and incisive perception.

COTTON CANDY ON A RAINY DAY; Giovanni, Nikki; $7.00; (no description available)

CRITICAL ESSAYS: GAY AND LESBIAN WRITERS OF COLOR; Nelson, Emmanuel;
$19.95; This pioneering work is the first book to systematically explore
the literature of gay and lesbian writers of color in the United States. It
challenges the marginalization and tokenization of gay men and lesbians of
color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing exclusively on the
imaginative work of representative Native-, Asian-, Latino(a)-, and African
American writers.

DEEP ARE THE ROOTS: MEMOIRS OF A BLACK EXPATRIATE; Heath, Gordon; $25.00;
In this delightful and poignant memoir, Heath tells the story of his
formative years, from childhood in New York to his awakening homosexuality
to his training in the arts. He was an accomplished actor whose career
spanned five decades on the major stages.

DEVIL FINDS WORK; Baldwin, James; $4.95; Bette Davis' eyes, Joan Crawford's
bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit's stereotype, Siudney Poitier's superhuman
black man, these are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced
Baldwin, and now become part of his incisive look at racism in American
movies.

DIARY OF A YOUNG SOUL REBEL; Julien, Isaac and Colin MacCabe; $18.95; Based
on the film of the same name, this book includes the movie's full script
and a diary the filmmaker recorded during the production of the film.
Includes many still shots of movie scenes. The story itself deals with two
black disc jockeys, one of whom is dealing with his homosexuality and white
lover during a time of racial tensions in 1970's London.

DOUBLE STITCH: BLACK WOMEN WRITE ABOUT MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS; Bell-Scott,
Patricia; $12.00; With a notable by Maya Angelou, 47 of America's leading
black feminists explore the richness and complexity of black
mother-daughter relationships in this monumental work of scholarship, which
includes poems, stories, and essays by Alice Walker, bell hooks, June
Jordan, Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez, and others.

DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Hurston, Zora Neale; $12.00; (no
description available)

EATING HILL; Mitchell, Karen; $8.95; (no description available)

EROTIQUE NOIRE/BLACK EROTICA; DeCosta-Willis, ed. by Miriam and Martin and
Roseann Bell; $14.00; African, African-, Latin-, and Caribbean-American men
and women, gay and straight, novelists, poets , essayists, and scholars
provide a Pandora's box of sexy and sensual delights ranging from the
lyrical to the lascivious, from the prurient to the provocative.

EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN; Baldwin, James; $7.95; Using the Wayne
Williams/Atlanta child-murder case both as a subject and a springboard,
Baldwin covers the whole spectrum of this country's life while focusing on
the problems of blacks in white America. What's happened to the American
Dream?

EXPERIMENTAL LOVE; Clarke, Cheryl; $8.95; The preeminent African-American
lesbian poet writing today, with a heady command of the language, the
ability to work in a variety of forms, and an uncompromising Black and
queer stance, she continues her thematic explorations of love objects and
death subjects.

FEMINIST THEORY: FROM MARGIN TO CENTER; hooks, bell; $11.00; (no
description available)

FOR THE LOVE OF MEN: SHIKATA GAI NAI; Bogus, SDiane; $15.00; This is a
first collection of poems written by a lesbian to, for, and about gay men.
Bogus renders uncommonly tender, empathic, and telling portraits of, and
perspectives on, the gay men in her life.

FORBIDDEN POEMS; Birtha, Becky; $10.95; Beginning with poems about
confronting racism and her empowerment as an African-American woman and
feminist, Birtha proceeds into the realm of personal grief at the loss of a
longtime lover.

FORERUNNERS: BLACK POETS IN AMERICA; King, Jr., ed. by Woodie; $6.95; The
sixteen black poets included in this anthology form a bridge between the
creative optimists of the Renaissance years and the poetic activists of the
'60s and '70s. A collection of work by poets who moved beyond a poetry of
reaction to a poetry that found its resolutions and meanings in black
history.

FORTY-THREE SEPTEMBERS; Gomez, Jewelle; $10.95; These essays weave together
the varied strands of experience that contribute to her writing life:
Black, lesbian, Native American, raised poor, ex-Catholic, fantasy-fiction
authorŠall are blended here. Exploring her relationship to her grandmother
and other women, gay men, coming out, and the political climate, all with a
mythic sense of heroism.

FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN; Corbin, Steven; $19.95; Skylar Whyte, a critically
acclaimed actor, is the eldest son in a dysfunctional African-American
Family. This book explores the dynamics of a family in which the lighter
complected child is favored over his darker brother. It examines the subtle
and sometimes not so subtle layers of racism within an interracial
homosexual couple, and in the gay community at large.

GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME; Angelou, Maya; $4.95; (no description available)

GEECHIES; Millard, Gregory; $5.95; "Geechies?/ Back in slavery times/three
slaves got off/Massuh's wagon to pee./The wagon rolled on and left/them
behind and they were/captured by Cree Indians./Massuh never missed them."
This is the real South, from the swamp slime of hatred to the magnolia
blossom sweetness of life.

GEMINI; Giovanni, Nikki; $4.95; (no description available)

GETTING IT TOGETHER: THE BLACK MAN'S GUIDE TO GOOD GROOMING AND FASHION;
Fields, Mike; $12.95; "Michael's knowledge of grooming and fashion was
vital to our looking good on stage and off. We are sure that his book can
add something to your life and help you get it together." \QUOTE Gladys
Knight and the Pips

GILDA STORIES; Gomez, Jewelle; $9.95; As her black heroine strides across
time, listening to the sounds of the world and trying to add her own voice,
she learns that immortality is not simple. History offers grand scale
cataclysms and everyday horrors, and Gilda's longing for community, for the
bonding of kindred spirits, puts hers at particular risk

GIOVANNI'S ROOM; Baldwin, James; $5.99; Desire comes crashing through
conventional morality when a young American expatriate in Paris falls in
love with a woman and a man. Baldwin's sharp insights create a complex
story of passion and death in this gay classic.

GOOD SENSE & THE FAITHLESS; Clinton, Michelle T.; $9.95; These are poems
about abuse and survival, finding love amidst madness, and coming of age as
a woman of color. Clinton turns inward to explore and explode the myths of
her complex sensuality/sexuality/ love.

HARUKO/LOVE POEMS; Jordan, June; $11.99; Expands and redefines the
traditional idea of the love poem. In the first half, Jordan writes to
Haruko in the style of the Neruda love poems. Taking from the haiku its
purity and economy, but giving it her own vision. Following the Haruko
poems is a selection by Adrienne Rich and Sara Miles from 20 years of love
poems that bear witness to the depth and breadth of June Jordan's poetic
brilliance.

HEALING HEART; Hull, Gloria T.; $8.95; "ŠAlong with Toni Morrison,
Charlotte Carter, and Lois Elaine Griffith, we are blessed with another
foreign tongue: the voice of a free, fearsome, sensual and vivid woman of
color. Gloria Hull is 'family.' She's one of us. She means to live." /QUOTE
Ntozake Shange

HER; Muhanji, Cherry; $8.95; (no description available)

HER BLUE BODY EVERYTHING WE KNOW: EARTHLING POEMS 1965-1990 COMPLETE;
Walker, Alice; $14.95; An anthology of new and uncollected poems alongside
her earlier poetry. Revelatory introductions to the sections become
essential threads in the tapestry of the tightly woven poems.

HER HEAD A VILLAGE, AND OTHER STORIES; Silvera, Makeda; $12.95; Told with
candor and compassion, these are stories of a mother facing deportation
after nine years of struggle and saving, of a lesbian love which persists
despite differences of class and color, of the harsh realities of racism
and homophobia, and of abiding friendships between women.

HERE TO DARE: 10 GAY BLACK POETS; Westley, ed. Robert; $10.00; Ten fierce
and passionate poets often using gritty language that delights and disturbs
with rhythms that hit you like winds and waves. Includes works by Arthur T.
Wilson, John D. Williams, Robert Westley, Harold McNeil Robinson, Craig A.
Reynolds, Cary Alan Johnson, Steve Langley, David Warren Frechette, Don
Charles, and Djola Bernard Branner.

HOME GIRLS: A BLACK FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY; Smith, ed. by Barbara; $15.95; A
far-reaching collection of essays, poetry and prose on the black feminist
experience. Includes contributions by Audre Lorde, Jewelle Gomez, June
Jordan, Alice Walker, and many more.

HOMEGIRLS AND HANDGRENADES; Sanchez, Sonia; $10.95; (no description available)

HUMID PITCH: NARRATIVE POETRY; Clarke, Cheryl; $8.95; "Long a recorder of
the difficult, juicy moment, the questions of difference, Cheryl Clark
gives us acute highlights along a journey traveled with resolve, pain, joy.
The best of her language has a singing tautness that is direct and
unavoidable, often elegant."-Audre Lorde

HUNDRED DAYS FROM NOW; Corbin, Steven; $18.95; Dexter Baldwin is a
celebrated black screenwriter, openly gay in both his personal and private
life. When he meets Sergio, a self-made millionaire, they embark on a
relationship that seems perfect, but Sergio is closeted, to family and his
business. As Sergio's health begins to erode from AIDS, he gambles on an
experimental bone marrow transplant that may or may not help. It will take
100 days to see if it works. A hundred days in which Sergio's Catholic
family must deal with his illness, his homosexuality, and his lover.

HUNGER SO WIDE AND SO DEEP: AMERICAN WOMEN SPEAK OUT ON EATING PROBLEMS;
Thompson, Becky; $17.95; Based on in-depth life history interviews with
African-American, Latina, and lesbian women, this book chronicles the
effects of racism, poverty, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on
women's bodies and eating patterns.

I AM YOUR SISTER; Lorde, Audre; $3.50; (no description available)

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS; Angelou, Maya; $5.50; (no description
available)

I LOVE MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHINGŠ AND THEN AGAIN WHEN I AM LOOKINGŠ;
Hurston, Zora Neale; $14.95; ŠMean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston
Reader

I SHALL NOT BE MOVED; Angelou, Maya; $8.95; A new collection of poems
suffused with loss and restoration, with history, love and ferocious
courage. In the electrifying writing that has made her one of the foremost
voices of the African-American experience, she demonstrates here the
artistry and enduring vision that continue to influence our culture and
touch our hearts.

I WONDER AS I WANDER; Hughes, Langston; $14.00; This second volume of
Hughes' autobiography vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate
moments of his life in the turbulent 30's. It is a continually amusing,
wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange
and exciting world he loves.

IMAGO; Butler, Octavia E.; $4.95; (no description available)

IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS: WOMANIST PROSE; Walker, Alice; $10.95;
This first collection of Walker's nonfiction represents the views of a
remarkable writer over a period of years and ranges over a wide variety of
topics including nuclear madness, motherhood, and feminism.

IN THE BLOOD; Phillips, Carl; $9.95; Phillips taught high school Latin for
eight years before returning to Harvard as a doctoral student in classical
philology. This is his first collection of poetry describing what it is to
be black and gay.

IN THE COMPANY OF MY SISTERS: BLACK WOMEN & SELF ESTEEM; Boyd, Julia;
$18.00; This book explores the familial, personal, and social struggles
black women face, and offers guidelines for finding sources of strength,
identity, and self-esteem in a difficult world. Boyd analyzes the
oppressive stereotypes and destructive myths--especially regarding
sexuality--and explores such topics as interracial relationships, bi- and
gay sexuality in the black community, and the roles played both by black
families and by white culture in black women's lives.

IN THE GAME: A VIRGINIA KELLY MYSTERY; BAKER, NIKKI; $8.95; This mystery is
sharp, funny, and on the mark. It's an auspicious debut of a new Black
writer who brings fresh perspective to today's diverse lesbian community.
Ginny and Bev have been best of friends since business school, but now
Bev's lover has been found murdered behind a lesbian Bar. Was it a hate
crime or restitution for embezzlement?

IN THE LIFE: A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY; Beam, ed. by Joseph; $8.95; This
material was collected after years of frustration with gay literature that
had no message for, and little mention of, black gay men. "The bottom line
is this: We are black men who are proudly gay." - the editor

IN THE TRADITION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF YOUNG BLACK WRITERS; Powell, ed. by Kevin
and Ras Baraka; $14.00; Contributors to this anthology range in age from 14
to 38 and cover the problems of contemporary life in a candid, tongue in
cheek manner: sexism, racism, homophobia, black on black violence, the
generation gap, police brutality, and many other issues. These young
writers tell it like it is.

INFANTS OF THE SPRING; Thurman, Wallace; $12.95; Possibly the first Black
Gay novel ever written! The book was published during and is about the
Harlem Renaissance. It acknowledges the homosexuality and the color
prejudices that were very much a part of the era.

INVISIBLE LIFE; Harris, E. Lynn; $9.95; In this bold debut novel we are
taken into the world of Raymond, a black bisexual male who spends eight
years trying alternately to deny and fulfill his passions. Caught between
the man he loves and the woman he longs for, he must ultimately make a
choice. This is a stunning novel of sexuality, homophobia in the black
community, and the search for love in the age of AIDS.

JAMES BALDWIN; Kenan, Randall; $9.95; This biography, written for younger
readers, follows Baldwin's incredible personal journey from the streets of
Harlem to the dingy apartments and gay bars of Greenwich Village to
literary exile in Paris and back to lead the civil rights of the 60's, from
teenage preacher to internationally-acclaimed writer, to his death in 1987.

JAMES BALDWIN; Leeming, David; $25.00; Leeming, who was Baldwin's friend
for 25 years, brings us close to the complex troubled man who struggled out
of Harlem to create a series of works that expose the essential racism of
America and the world. He explores every aspect of his personal life, his
relationships with the famous, his homosexuality and precarious lifestyle,
his expatriate years, his attempts at suicide, and above all his passionate
and brilliant battle against the white society's denial of any black sense
of identity.

JIMMY'S BLUES; Baldwin, James; $9.95; Haunting lyricism, sometimes quiet
and reflective, often bitter or violent, Baldwin's poems echo many of the
themes of his novels and essays. This poetry is easily understood, but the
emotions behind the works go to the core.

JONESTOWN AND OTHER MADNESS; Parker, Pat; $7.95; Poet and performer Pat
Parker writes in this straightforward, no-nonsense book about being Black,
female and gay. Her poetry "is shot through with life; it's nothing if not
genuine. It's clear, strong, visionary, and unmistakably great." /QUOTE
Women's Review of Books

JUST ABOVE MY HEAD; Baldwin, James; $5.95; The stark grief of a brother
mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable
experience. Here is a monumental saga of love and rage, Harlem and
homosexual passion. This is the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his
family in a journey into another country of the soul and senses, and a
living contemporary history of black struggle in this land

JUST AS I AM; Harris, E. Lynn; $21.95; The follow-up to Invisible Life we
see the further adventures of Raymond as he continues to search for love
with that perfect man and as he finally comes to terms with fact that he is
gay. In vivid prose Harris also tackles the subjects of AIDS, racism,
sexism and homophobia within the African American community. It is a moving
sequel to the bestselling book and a sassy portrait of contemporary black
gay life.

KEEPING SECRETS: A GIANNA MAGLIONE MYSTERY; Mickelbury, Penny; $9.95; DC
police Lt. Maglione, head the Hate Crimes Unit, must track down a serial
killer. African-American news reporter Mimi Patterson is also investigating
the deaths and the rumors that the force is keeping secret the method of
death and the victims' sexual orientation. Gianna pleads for secrecy so her
force has a chance to track down a killer who has infiltrated the gay
community.

KILLING COLOR; Sherman, Charlotte Watson; $8.95; Charlotte Watson Sherman
says of her collection of stories, " The stories are words from the
migratory mouths of rural dark folk transplanted from the periphery, the
marginalized blank space, the shadowy edge of what some of us call history,
words sprung from these soft African lips on the pages of our imaginations,
full blown."

LAND OF LOOK BEHIND; Cliff, Michelle; $8.95; The Jamaican-born,
light-skinned author speaks with a distinctive, commanding voice that is
sensual yet unsympathetic. She tries to make a wholeness out of the
colonialism that has fragmented her people.

LESBIANS TALK: MAKING BLACK WAVES; Mason-John, Valerie and Ann Khambatta;
$8.50; Documents the lives of Black lesbians in Britain. It provides a
fascinating record of achievements and struggles, debates and issues. A
dynamic and honest book which searches among the embers of the 1990's
British culture for a Black lesbian identity. It transcends labels to
explore herstory, racism and separatism among the voices of Black lesbians
living in Britain today.

LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD; Kenan, Randall; $10.95; These are stories
about blacks and whites, young and old, rich and poor, rural and
sophisticated; stories at once grittily down to earth and soaringly
fantastical. We meet the folk of Tims Creek, NC. Clarence who receives
messages from the grave. Lena who revitalizes her life after a weekend with
a teen. Dean who is hired to seduce the richest black man in town and the
Reverend doing a eulogy for a woman he enjoyed in the throes of passion.

LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES: VOL. 1: 1902-1941; Rampersad, Arnold; $13.95; This
extraordinary portrait of Langston Hughes, the most original and revered of
black poets, traces the nomadic and yet dedicated spirit that led the young
Hughes to Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union, China and
Japan, as well as all over the US.

LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES: VOL. 2: 1941-1967; Rampersad, Arnold; $12.95;
Tracing Hughes' life from the humiliations of 1940-41, with his career in
jeopardy, to his death in 1967, this book combines with the first volume to
offer a matchless panorama of life and culture in America and abroad during
the first seventy years of this century.

LINDEN HILLS; Naylor, Gloria; $10.00; Through the eyes of two poets doing
odd jobs in a swank, all-black neighborhood, Linden Hills is transformed
into a place of lost souls trapped in the American dream. Naylor is quickly
ascending to high praise among other contemporary American writers of
fiction.

LIVING AS A LESBIAN; Clark, Cheryl; $7.95; Black lesbian feminist poetry
that celebrates loving relationships, reminds one of one's past, decries
male domination and it's destructive nature, and haunts the reader with
touching, simple, and compelling feeling for the way words work.

LIVING BY THE WORD: SELECTED WRITINGS 1973-1987; Walker, Alice; $8.95; A
new collection of prose pieces including an account of Walker's
relationship to the lesbian and gay community of San Francisco where she
currently resides. Walker also discusses the film version of THE COLOR
PURPLE, the environment, her struggles to become a vegetarian, and much
more.

LIVING ROOM; Jordan, June; $8.95; "Jordan makes us think of Akhmatova, of
Neruda. She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for
all. She is the universal poet." - Alice Walker

LONG GOODBYES: A VIRGINIA KELLY MYSTERY; Baker, Nikki; $9.95; Home for
Christmas and a high school reunion, Virginia must deal with buried ghosts,
and resurfaced passions. Rosalee, her first love, exhibits new interest, so
does a classmate renamed Spike, who determinedly pursues her. A former
teacher's wife dies in a mysterious drowning, and now, someone else is
about to dieŠ

LOVE SPACE DEMANDS; Shange, Ntozake; $9.95; This is the house music of the
soul, a love space where we all wear our desires, our t-cells, our hearts
on our sleeves, frayed pants, custom limos, and all that comes with wanting
to get hold of life, get hold of someone to love, or be left scrambling to
get hold to a high.

LOVERS' CHOICE; Birtha, Becky; $10.95; Displaying her talent for charting
the course of women's lives with insight and intelligence, Birtha describes
the possibilities and problems of claiming an identity in a world that
marginalizes lesbians, women, and people of color. She captures the elation
of a 14-year-old girl who discovers her lesbianism; the gritty
determination of a poor mother taking her family on an all-night bus ride
to keep from freezing.

LOVING HER; Shockley, Ann Allen; $7.95; Forced by pregnancy to marry the
irresponsible, abusive Perry Lee, Renay, a black pianist at a supper club,
is struggling for economic and spiritual survival. With her young daughter
she finally flees, and Terry, a wealthy and successful writer, offers
protectionŠand a love beyond all Renay's erotic imaginings. LOVING HERŠa
powerful story of interracial love.

MALCOLM X: IN OUR OWN IMAGE; Wood, Joe; $10.95; Essays on the
representation of Malcolm X in American culture. Includes one by Ron
Simmons and Marlon Riggs on Sexuality, Television, and Death: A Black Gay
Dialogue on Malcolm X.

MARVELOUS ARITHMETICS OF DISTANCE; Lorde, Audre; $8.95; Lorde's final
collection of new work, this is a volume of posthumously- published poetry
that continues to explore her lifelong themes of love and anger, family
politics, sexuality, and the body of the city.

MEDITATIONS ON THE RAINBOW; Sapphire; $7.00; "this book is dedicated to

MEN OF COLOR: AN ESSAY ON THE BLACK MALE COUPLE; Vega Studios; $10.00;
Further Subtitled: in Prose, Ilustrations, and Photographs

MOSES, MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN; Hurston, Zora Neale; $12.00; Blends the Moses
of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a
powerful novel of the persecution of slavery.

MOTION OF LIGHT IN WATER: SEX AND SCIENCE FICTION WRITING IN THE EAST
VILLAGE; Delany, Samuel R.; $12.95; This new version includes all the sex
previously edited out of the original text.

MOVEMENT IN BLACK; Parker, Pat; $8.95; (no description available)

MOVING TOWARDS HOME: POLITICAL ESSAYS; Jordan, June; $11.95; This
collection gives a manifesto of hope, anger, and visionary power. The scope
of her writing over the past twenty-five years bears vivid witness to her
intention: police brutality, the poverty of educational opportunity offered
to Black ghetto children, witnessing a white man's casual murder of another
human being in Mississippi, her mother's death, the viability of Black
English, Nicaragua and South Africa, and child abuse-all summon up Jordan's
clear voice and unwavering commitment.

MULE BONE; Hughes, Langston & Zora Neale Hurston; $9.95; (no description
available)

MULES AND MEN; Hurston, Zora Neale; $11.00; Simple, exciting reading on
black folklore and culture, these tales and anecdotes of American injustice
to blacks, why the rabbit has a short tail, voodoo, why some people are
black and more about the mixing of African and European culture.

MY HOUSE; Giovanni, Nikki; $7.95; A collection of poems both personal and
autobiographical rather than political; it is also lively, loving, witty
and occasionally tough-minded. She writes of mothers and their children, of
childhood memories, of black leaders and black Africa. This is an important
book by a black woman written in and of the '70s.

NAMING OUR DESTINY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS; Jordan, June; $12.95; This
collection is the definitive anthology of work by Jordan, compiling poetry
from nearly 20 years - including over 50 poems published in the U.S. for
the first time. Empathetic to all it encounters, her poetry is a deeply
personal music sounded in response to universal concerns. She addresses
racism, oppression, and dispossession with a call for justice and for
sensitivity to our world.

NARRATIVES: POEMS IN THE TRADITION OF BLACK WOMEN; Clark, Cheryl; $5.50; A
gallery of incisive, specific portraits of black women, whose lives, as
June Jordan states, are "honestly perceived with a clearly hard-working
respect and without affectation." Clark considers her black, lesbian, and
feminist identities to be "the filter of her imagination."

NEED: A CHORALE FOR BLACK WOMAN VOICES; Lorde, Audre; $3.50; Poetic
response to the murder of 12 black women in Boston that was met with
racism, sexism and indifference. The poem challenges both men and women to
confront on going realities of violence against women of color.

NO LANGUAGE IS NEUTRAL; Brand, Dionne; $12.95; Elegiac in tone, these poems
by the author of SANS SOUCI AND OTHER STORIES give full vent to her
feelings as a Black Lesbian in a world dominated by white, heterosexual
males.

NO NAME IN THE STREET; Baldwin, James; $4.95; Vivid personal document of
the turbulent sixties and early seventies during which time Baldwin saw the
murder of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, went to Europe and Hollywood
and returned to the American South to confront a violent America face to
face.

NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME; Baldwin, James; $10.00; Sparkling prose and
intelligence illuminate the American consciousness. Literary and social
history with immeasurable significance for our society and our hearts.
Describes Baldwin's Harlem childhood, makes a startling assessment of
Norman Mailer, and looks back with pain at his alienation of Richard
Wright.

NOTES OF A NATIVE SON; Baldwin, James; $11.00; (no description available)

NOW SHEBA SINGS THE SONG; Angelou, Maya; $9.95; A new edition of the
seamless collaboration between renowned poet Angelou and award-winning
illustrator Tom Feelings, combines verse and sepia-toned illustrations in a
beautiful paean to Black women. With a deep admiration, it celebrates the
extraordinary ordinary women, their beauty, their presence, and their inner
strength.

ON CALL: POLITICAL ESSAYS; Jordan, June; $10.00; (no description available)

ON THE PULSE OF MORNING; Angelou, Maya; $5.00; The inaugural poem the
author wrote and read.

OUR DEAD BEHIND US; Lorde, Audre; $9.00; A reprint of the classic
collection of poetry. In this collection Audre gave us poems that explored
differences as creative tensions, and the melding past strength, pain with
future hope, fear; the present being the vital catalyst, the motivating
force.

OUT! TO LEAD; Ferebee, Gideon; $12.95; Ferebee does more than explain and
define the historical and current paranoia of our homophobic society as
created and perpetuated by the dominant white male infrastructure.
Initially, one senses his deep anger and frustration, as an African
American homosexual, at a system which essentially aims to eliminate his
kind. However, as his ideas unfold, he precisely and logically exposes the
blatant and subtle hypocrisies inherent in every stratum of American
society.

PANTHER AND THE LASH; Hughes, Langston; $10.00; Hughe's last collection of
poems explicitly addresses the racial politics of the 1960's. They are a
lasting testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and
artfully with most compelling issues of his time.

PERVERSIONS; Gonsalves, Roy; $5.95; (no description available)

PIECE OF MY HEART: A LESBIAN OF COLOUR ANTHOLOGY; Silvera, Makeda; $16.95;
Stories, poetry, essays, interviews and photographs are combined in this
anthology of lesbians of color. It is uncompromising in it's honest. At
times humorous, angry, confrontational, erotic and celebratory in it's
style, the lives of women out an coming out are revealed.

POEMS (ANGELOU); Angelou, Maya; $4.99; "The wisdom, rue and humor of her
storytelling are borne on a lilting rhythm completely her own, the product
of a born writer's senses nourished on black church singing and preaching,
soft mother talk, and salty street talk, and on literature." - The New York
Times Book Review

POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY; Walker, Alice; $5.99; The story of Tashi
Johnson, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North
America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people
led her to submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated
(circumcised). Traumatized by this experience she spends the rest of her
life battling madness, trying desperately through psychoanalysis to regain
the ability to recognize her own reality.

PRESCRIPTION FOR PREVENTING AIDS: CURE THE BODY POLITIC OF PREJUDICE;
Dickerson, Neal; $12.00; This is volume 3 from a six-volume study. This
book contains essays on the price of prevention, the politics of
prevention, sex-positive prevention programs, HIV prevention and
prophylactics, HIV, adolescents, and AIDS education, gay youth and men,
Hispanic and HIV, women and reality, HIV in IVDUs and needle exchange, and
African-Americans and HIV.

PRESENTINGŠSISTER NO BLUES; Gossett, Hattie; $8.95; A collection of highly
spiced writings detailing the downs and ups of a mature Black urban member
of the wild wimmins clan as she ekes out a living as a cleaning person, bar
waitress, office temp, foiling the unwanted advances and criminal
withholdings of landlords, bosses, lovers and others in the urban jungle.

QUEER KIND OF DEATH (PHAROAH LOVE MYSTERY #1); Baxt, George; $4.95;
Originally published in 1966, this mystery has become a modern classic,
forerunner to a whole slew of whodunnits. A young actor is found dead in
his bath, and NYPD Detective Pharoah Love, a black gay man, steps in to
quell the intrigue. With a new introduction by the author.

QUEER KIND OF LOVE: A PHAROAH LOVE MYSTERY; Baxt, George; $20.00; Black gay
detective Pharoah Love returns and he's up to his earring in murder! In
little Italy someone is murdering members of the Capesi crime family and
Vinnie Sasso, Pharoah's friend, suspects its not a simple "family" matter.
On the trail of a killer and a teenage gang of carjackers, Pharoah finds
himself in the position of helping a mafioso he would just as soon see
behind bars.

RACISM 101; Giovanni, Nikki; $20.00; This book indicts higher education for
the inequities it perpetuates, contemplates the legacy of the 60's,
provides a survival guide for black students on predominately white
campuses, and denounces Spike Lee while offering her own ideas for a film
about Malcolm X.

RADICAL PERVERSIONS: BLACK FRIDAY?/ CLAPOSIS; Butler, Audrey; $10.95;
Butler, a born-again Cape Bretoner now living in Toronto, is skilled at
writing about the humor and complexity in relationships between lovers,
close friends and community.

RENDER ME MY SONG: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS FROM SLAVERY TO THE
PRESENT; Russell, Sandi; $9.95; In the last decade, black women writers
have come into their own; their voices resonate throughout the world. This
is the story of the epic struggle of these women to recover their voice and
spirit from a past that reached into and through slavery.

RESISTING RACISM: AN ACTION GUIDE; Mallon, ed., Gerald L.; $20.00; This
manual to help the gay and lesbian community explore the issue of racism is
divided into four parts: workshop outlines, resource material, essays, and
bibliographies. The guide provides the reader with NABWMT's position on
racism, bar discrimination, and the importance of multi-culturalism in our
gay and lesbian society.

RITUALS; Hickman, Craig; $12.95; This book brings together musical verse,
unabashed autobiographical writing, short fiction, and seering commentary
on being Black and gay in America today. The result is a celebration of
life, the trials and tribulations and the triumphs. The author is a
writer/performer/ artist and lives in Cambridge, MA.

ROAD BEFORE US (100 BLACK GAY POETS); Saint, Assoto; $10.00; 100 Black gay
poets explore every aspect of Black gay life: from tradition to alienation,
from the fierce gender bending "vogue" culture to defiant sex and love in
the age of AIDS, from historical and political perspectives to personal
reflections of future paths. Poets include: Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill,
Roy Gonsalves, Andre De Shields, Donald Woods, etc.

SACRED COWS... AND OTHER EDIBLES; Giovanni, Nikki; $7.95; In this
collection of autobiographical essays and articles, Nikki Giovanni, our
most widely read living black poet, takes on some lofty institutions and
major life crises and clearly comes out the winner. This is triumphant
prose with all the gritty reality of Giovanni's best poetry.

SANCTIFIED CHURCH; Hurston, Zora Neale; $9.95; Now back in print, CHURCH
brings together Hurston's most famous essays on Afro-American folklore and
legend, and the voodoo base to southern black folk religion.

SANS SOUCI AND OTHER STORIES; Brand, Dionne; $8.95; Born in the Caribbean
and living in Toronto for the past eighteen years, Brand presents her first
book for the U.S., a beautiful collection of short stories.

SAY JESUS AND COME TO ME; Shockley, Ann Allen; $8.95; Evangelist Myrtle
Black holds a powerful sway over her following who do not suspect she is a
lesbian. She meets Travis Lee, a successful fast-lane singer, in town for a
recording session. To love each other is the ultimate jeopardyŠTravis's
career is at risk, and Myrtle must finally come to terms with the
contradictions between her ministry and her lesbian identity.

SCHWARZBLACKNOIR; Hatton, Norman; $39.95; Acclaimed Canadian photographer
Hatton focuses his lens on the beauty of black men in this new collection
of black and white pictures.

SELECTED POEMS; Jonas, Stephen; $16.95; Since his death in 1970 the man and
his work have become legendary. This book brings together an extensive
selection of previously unpublished work together with the complete
Exercises for Ear, Jonas's best known book. With a biographical and
critical introduction by the editor Joseph Torra.

SELECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES; Hughes, Langston; $10.00; (no
description available)

SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE; Hurston, Zora Neale; $12.00; (no description available)

SERPENT'S GIFT; Lee, Helen Elaine; $21.00; A first novel from a local
lesbian writer. Central to this haunting novel are the mothers, a study in
contrast in strength and rigidity, Ruby Staples and Eula Smalls, and their
children: LaRue Smalls, adventurer and chronicler of his people, his sister
Vesta, intimidated by life yet determined to hold her family together, and
Ouida Staples, a rare beauty who spends her life with another woman.

SINGIN' AND SWINGIN' AND GETTIN' MERRY LIKE CHRISTMAS; Angelou, Maya;
$5.50; (no description available)

SISTER OUTSIDER: ESSAYS AND SPEECHES; Lorde, Audre; $10.95; Covering eight
of this black lesbian feminist poet's nonfiction work, here is a collection
of essays and theory that speak to our struggles in the modern voice.
Includes "Poetry is Not a Luxury," "Uses of the Erotic," and "Sexism: An
American Disease in Blackface."

SISTERFIRE: BLACK WOMANIST FICTION AND POETRY; Sherman, Charlotte Watson;
$12.00; A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by
some of today's most notable authors including Maya Angelou, Alice Walker,
Gloria Naylor, Sonia Sanchez, ntozake shange and many others speak directly
to the lives and concerns of African-American women in the nineties.

SISTERS OF THE YAM: BLACK WOMEN AND SELF-RECOVERY; hooks, bell; $14.00;
hooks politicizes the issue of self-recovery by making the connection
between our individual efforts to be self-actualized and collective
liberation struggles. Tackling such issues as addiction, violence,
spirituality, erotic experience, community activism and others. She shares
numerous strategies for self-recovery that can heal individuals and empower
effective struggles against racism.

SLAVESONG: THE ART OF SINGING; Kwelismith; $8.00; "These poems sing. In
them we hear the mythic heart beat under the rhythm of the slave's song:
the spiritual jazz, rhythm & blues, rock 'n' roll and even rap. They dig
down and release the voice of humor, pain and longing held in bondage in
all of our Black souls." Toi Derricotte, poet

SMELL THIS 2: SPRING 91; smell this; $9.95; AN UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL
containing academic and creative works in visual and written forms
exclusively by or about women of color. Six lesbians works appear.

SOJOURNER: BLACK GAY VOICES IN THE AGE OF AIDS; Other Countries; $10.95; A
powerful collection of poetry, essays, letters, artwork and prose by black
gay writers who evoke the full range of human emotions through this
passionate, life affirming document. Melvin Dixon, Donald Woods, Assotto
Saint, David Frechette, Craig Harris and others confront the realities of
AIDS, racism and homophobia.

SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING; Cassells, Cyrus; $12.00; Enriched both
mythologically and experientially by his own world travels, he draws with
equal ease from classical Greek myth, children's rhymes, and African
American oral traditions. The result is often hypnotic and rhapsodic
interweaving dramatic narratives forming a single whole. Unflinching in its
examinations of the Holocaust and AIDs, remarkable in its challenge to
received notions of triumph and survival this book is a virtuoso
performance.

SPUNK: THE SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON; Hurston, Zora
Neale; $9.95; This now famous collection of the best of Hurston's short
stories, many of which are collected here for the first time, focuses on
the rural Black community of Batonville, Florida, and on Harlem during the
height of the Renaissance, forming a magnificent legacy from a writer whose
work has sparked one of the major literary revivals of our time.

STATIONS; Saint, Assotto; $7.00; Saint, whose work has appeared in TONGUES
UNTIED, IN THE LIFE: A BLACK GAY ANTHOLOGY, OTHER COUNTRIES: BLACK GAY
VOICES, THE JAMES WHITE REVIEW, and numerous other publications, here
presents a poetry cycle which traces two gay men's interracial love through
the 80's and beyond.

STRANGE BROTHER; Niles, Blair; $12.95; Originally published in 1931, this
was one of the first novels to prominently feature a gay male as lead
character. Mark Thornton is drawn to the jazz and exotic life in Harlem.
His black friends offer him a temporary respite from his world of
homosexuality. As the summer wears on, he soon reveals himself, and his new
identity begins to close in on him.

SWING LOW, SWEET HARRIET (PHAROAH LOVE MYSTERY #2); Baxt, George; $4.95;
This story tells of four women who rose to stardom in the Hollywood
musicals of the 30's, and whose careers were ruined with the murder of
their producer, famous movie mogul Barclay Mill. Thirty-three years later,
Mill's unsolved murder crops up again when one of the women hires Seth Piro
to ghost her autobiography. Pharoah Love, Seth's friend, gets the distinct
impression that the murderer is not only alive but is part of the Mill
circle in Manhattan.

TALKING AT THE GATES: A LIFE OF JAMES BALDWIN; Campbell, James; $12.00; An
honest and moving story, it is the biography of the boy preacher who became
a great man of letters, of the native son who fled his homeland. A literary
biography, it places each work in the context of his life.

TALKING BACK: THINKING FEMINIST, THINKING BLACK; hooks, bell; $11.00; (no
description available)

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; Jordan, June; $12.00; A new collection of essays on
a rich variety of contemporary American themes. From growing up in
Brooklyn, the perverse myths of race and class, the romance of an artist,
to the relationship between poetry and politics.

TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAINS BEEN GONE; Baldwin, James; $5.95; A successful
black actor confronts his personal dilemmas and passions. Baldwin follows
him from his childhood in Harlem to his unconventional love affair in a
narrative of ringing truth and frankness. Strikes close to the heart.

TELL MY HORSE; Hurston, Zora Neale; $12.00; (no description available)

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD; Hurston, Zora Neale; $12.00; This
extraordinary novel about love between two black people belongs in the
category of enduring American literature with that of Faulkner, Fitzgerald
and Hemingway. "There is no book more important to me than this one."
\QUOTE Alice Walker

THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR; Moraga, ed.
by Cherrie and Gloria Anzaldua; $9.95; Containing prose, poetry, personal
narrative, and analyses by Black American, Asian American, Latina, and
Native American women, this book presents vivid, thoughtful writing on
feminism, radicalism, homophobia, racism, and other topic areas. Includes
an excellent third world bibliography.

THOSE WHO RIDE THE NIGHT WINDS; Giovanni, Nikki; $6.95; The title of this
collection refers to people who have tried to make changes, people who have
gone against the tide, people who were unafraid to test their wings. Long
known as the "Princess of Black Poetry," Giovanni is as alive and as
vibrant as ever. Her many readers will find once again in this collection
the warmth, wit, passion, and caring about people that have always
distinguished her work.

THREE PIECES; Shange, Ntozake; $10.95; In these three plays, she
brilliantly recasts traditional forms to capture the essences of the lives
of black people. Spell #7 is a black magic and variety show; A Photograph:
Lovers In Motion, a sensual melodrama of intersecting lives and loves; and
Boogie Woogie Landscapes, a stream of consciousness verse play.

THRESHING FLOOR; Burford, Barbara; $7.95; A powerful collection of stories
about the lives of Black women. Burford, a Black British lesbian,
constructs cruel realities, dream fantasies, bitter escapes, visionary
worlds, and day-to-day loves. Deeply etched portraits full of light and
shadow.

TO THE CLEVELAND STATION; Douglas, Carol Anne; $6.95; A novel of lesbian
lives of a love affair between a black and a white woman.

TONGUES UNTIED; Aaab-Richards, Dirg, et al; $7.95; This book is a glorious
outpouring of verse from five gifted black poets: Dirg Aaab-Richards, Craig
G. Harris, Essex Hemphill, Isaac Jackson, and Assotto Saint.

TOPSY AND EVIL (PHAROAH LOVE MYSTERY #3); Baxt, George; $4.95; Ostensibly,
this mystery is about the murder of the mysterious tycoon Guru Raskalnikov,
who is mysteriously bludgeoned to death with the classic blunt instrument.
Another part of the problem is finding out exactly what said classic blunt
instrument was. The typical Baxtian cast of bizarre characters include
Topsy Alcott , Fauna and Flora Fleur, Winnie Ruth Jodo, Archimedes Zoltan,
Satan Stagg and others from the first two novels of this Pharoah Love
detective trilogy.

TRANQUIL LAKE OF LOVE; Cook, Carl; $8.00; In documenting the nuances of an
intense relationship, Cook evokes the passion, pain, sensuality and joy in
language that is lyrical and flowing on serene rhythms of completion. This
is a thoughtful and sensitive collection of love poetry.

TRIMMINGS; Mullen, Harryette; $7.00; Author is not a lesbian. These prose
poems were directly inspires by Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons" with a
like imagery intertwined between both.

TROUBLE THE WATER; Dixon, Melvin; $8.95; A story of returning home after
twenty years away from one's roots, of re-claiming past heritage, and
facing the consequences of long absence. A successful young man from Pee
Dee, North Carolina returns home to the funeral of his grandmother, and
re-encounters his former life. There, he finds a more clear understanding
of the troubles of his present lie in his past.

UNDER A SOPRANO SKY; Sanchez, Sonya; $6.95; "Sanchez is undoubtedly one of
the most under-appreciated poets writing today. Her pristine lyricism
combined with her strong voice and black female themes make her special."
/Quote Gloria T. Hull, from Shakespeare's Sisters Feminist Essays on Women
Writers

UNDERSONG: CHOSEN POEMS OLD AND NEW; Lorde, Audre; $9.95; "Here are the
words of some of the women I have been, am being still, will come to be,"
writes the author of this volume which brings together many of the most
important poems she has written over the past thirty years. Revised and
updated edition includes six new poems.

UNFORGETTING HEART: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES BY AFRICAN AMERICAN
WOMEN; Kanwar, Asha ed.; $9.95; This anthology of short stories by African
American women spans 150 years. It includes short stories by Zora Neale
Hurston, Ann Allen Shockley, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Alice Walker,
Becky Birtha, and many others.

VANISHING ROOMS; Dixon, Melvin; $10.00; Jesse's boyfriend Metro is
murdered, he turns to Ruella for comfort and she hopes he will ease her
sexual isolation. Lonny wonders aimlessly through life he and his friends
commit the gay-bashing. These three solitary voices intertwine in powerful
counterpoint as they tell their compelling tales.

VISITATION OF SPIRITS; Kenan, Randall; $9.95; Kenan recounts the complex
and sustaining truths of four generations of a black family's life in the
South - as well as an urgent new view of the South's future. "Randall Kenan
speaks eloquently and with a great deal of courage about personal and
communal strife within the black community. But above all, he speaks in the
voice of the future that is tinged with bittersweet love." - Gloria Naylor

WAITING ROOMS; Parkerson, Michelle; $5.00; A modest collection of prose and
poetry of an experimental nature with a high degree of success in each
form. Parkerson addresses lesbianism, being black, and modern moral issues
in a down to earth yet universal tone.

WARM DECEMBER; Vega Studios; $9.95; A collection of poetry, illustrations,
and photographs which introduce the works of new writers and artists. Rory
Buchanan, Carl Cook, Adisa Osei Chionseu and others. The three mediums are
delicately weaved together to tell the stories about love empowerment, and
survival, in a time of victimization and the need for self-empowerment
during the AIDS crisis.

WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS; Hughes, Langston; $9.00; A collection of stories
depicting black people colliding humorously and tragically with whites in
the 1920's and 30's.

WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM: SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK..STILL ON THE JOURNEY;
Reagon, Bernice Johnson and Sweet Honey In the Rock; $16.95; Brings the
full range of voices and palates of these exciting, dynamic African
American women to the page as powerfully as they conquer the concert stage.
This book moves with energy and good pacing through the lives and rhythms
of the women who make up the group. It includes essays by each member and
their support team, historical essays and appreciations by Alice Walker and
Angela Davis.

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: NEW POSITIONS IN BLACK CULTURAL STUDIES; Mercer,
Kobend; $17.95; Brings a black perspective to the reading of a wide range
of cultural texts, events and experiences in the politics of ethnicity,
sexuality and race during the 1980's. Mercer seeks out new hybrid
identities that have been forged out of this turbulent period, from Michael
Jackson's ethnic androgyny to the homoerotic photographs of Robert
Mapplethorpe. Mercer's essays make for a powerful re-reading of the art of
postmodernity and the location of Black and Queer cultural art practices
within it.

WHITE ON BLACK ON WHITE; Dowell, Coleman; $14.95; Edgar Cayce, a black
policeman, is the central figure of the novel. As we read Cayce's
memoirs---in fact written by the narrator who is white---we are given a
searing picture of racial and sexual prejudice.

WILD SEED; Butler, Octavia E.; $4.99; Doro, a mind force who destroyed the
bodies he could inhabit. He wanted to rule all. Anyanwu was a goddess,
mother, priestess, medicine-woman. Together they fought a battle of wills.

WISHING FOR WINGS; Saint, Assotto; $10.00; The last collection of poetry
from Assotto. This collection revolves around AIDS, African Americans,
racism, homophobia, and his late partner.

WOMAN THAT I AM: THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF WOMEN OF COLOR; Madison, D.
Soyini; $35.00; Gathers works of 126 contemporary authors including Alice
Walker, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, June Jordon, Nikki Giovanni, Ntozake
Shange, Maya Angelou, and others.

WOMAN'S MOURNING SONG; hooks, bell; $8.00; Explores the manner in which
African Americans celebrate the passing on of the spirit to another world
when someone dies. Her pieces ring with a woman's voice and reflect a
positive outlook on loss and death that helps to explain the complexities
of living.

WOMEN AND THE MEN; Giovanni, Nikki; $6.95; (no description available)

WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE; Naylor, Gloria; $10.00; Seven women have made
their way to Brewster Place, including some who are "that way." Naylor's
book "sings of sorrows proudly borne by black women in America."\QUOTE The
Washington Post. Made memorable by Oprah Winfrey's two-part television
production.

WOULDN'T TAKE NOTHING FOR MY JOURNEY NOW; Angelou, Maya; $5.50; A
collection of wisdom, this volume distills her thoughts about how spirit
and spirituality move and shape her life. It is about service and grace and
giving, and about how she celebrates the spirit of her people and the
earthy sensuality of the sisterhood.

YEARNING: RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURAL POLITICS; hooks, bell; $14.00; (no
description available)

ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME; Lorde, Audre; $10.95; Combining elements
of history, biography, and myth, Lorde's book tells of her coming of age,
and of the strength she has found through "zami - a West Indian term for
women who work together as friends and lovers."

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information, send e-mail to: lambdarising@his.com.

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Lambda Rising, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Permission to reprint by
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