Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, (1996). First edition - The second collection by this award-winning poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher. Among her many awards are the first Jackson poetry prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry in 2010 and more. Cover praise from Adrienne Rich who called this "a work of uncommon skill, intelligence and beauty" while Garrett Hongo praised it for what "it reveals about a woman's two-fold apprenticship in black glamour and black grief. The result is a joy to read." Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition. 85 pp. ISBN: 1-882688120.