The Way I Feel: A Poetic Look At Politics

New York: Vantage Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red textured paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 18pp. Light spotting to top edge of text, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light foxing to extremities. The African-American poet's first (and only) collection, which "flooded her mind as she looked at the shambles in which Watergate and its aftermath left the country." Intended, she says, "to replace carrying a picket sign or participating in some demonstration or planting a bomb somewhere." OCLC locates 12 holdings.