Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; 56 pages
Publisher: E. P. Dutton / Dial Books, 1987, New York
ISBN: 0525245014
Illustrator: Illustrated by Feelings, Tom; Drawings

[Book #15891]

First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition with traces of foxing to page edges in alike dustjacket, an attractive copy;

Reflecting her four-year residence in Ghana, Angelou pays homage to black women in this intensely sensuous work resonating with sexuality, humor and indomitable hope. Caldecott Honor artist Tom Feelings illuminates the poem with 84 sepia-toned portraits of "extraordinary ordinary women," sketched from life in the United States, Africa and South America over a 25 year period