Black
Subtitle: a handbook
By: by Tia Blassingame
Contributors: Primrose Press
Publisher: Primrose Press
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New Haven, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Artists' books; African Americans; Poetry; Black Women; American poetry; African American authors; American Concrete poetry
Notes: Poems.

Artists' book.

Edition limited to 40 numbered copies signed by the artist.

Each poem is printed on a separate bifoliate paste paper sheet.

"The poems in Black: A Handbook were written over the last thirty-five years ..."--Colophon.

"Fourth in the series after Negroes: A Handbook (2015), Colored: A Handbook (2020), and African American: A Handbook (2020), Black combines digital printing in Tribeca and Optima typefaces with handmade paste papers partially dyed with persimmon juice, ash, iron oxide, and indigo."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 23; initialled by the artist

Unbound bifolia housed in a lidded wooden box.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Human -- -- ch. 2.; title: Seahorse -- -- ch. 3.; title: Poison oasis -- -- ch. 4.; title: Waiting room -- -- ch. 5.; title: Untitled -- -- ch. 6.; title: Little man inside my chest -- -- ch. 7.; title: Lights glisten -- -- ch. 8.; title: The portrait of a young black man -- -- ch. 9.; title: Ertha Kitt and Orson Welles -- -- ch. 10.; title: Courting phrasebook.