Le Bookiniste / ABAA-ILAB-IOBA
Hodges, Frenchy Jolene
Black Wisdom
$40
Item Details
Detroit, Broadside Press, 1971, Soft cover
First Edition, First Printing, Very Good
Collection of 21 poems by Frenchy Hodges (b. 1940 in Dublin, Georgia), her first book of poetry. Issued by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press in Detroit. Hodges taught English and creative writing for several years in Detroit inner-city schools and was an actress in several theatre productions.
Hodges also has written fiction, including the story "Requiem for Willie Lee," about the relationship between a Black school teacher and an armed robber. Ms. magazine published the story in 1979; the story has appeared in several anthologies.
Further reading: Yolanda Williams Page (ed.), Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers (Greenwood Press, 2007).
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 138 mm), 30,[2] pages, in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Some mild soiling to wrappers, sunning to extremities, and rusting to staples but internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Very Good or better.
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