Parker, Pat - Jonestown & Other Madness
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Pat Parker.
Jonestown & Other Madness.
Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1985.
Softcover.
75 pages.
Near fine.
Slight edgewear.
1985 first edition.
African American feminist lesbian poet Pat Parker (1944–1989) published her first book of poetry, Child of Myself, in 1972. In 1978 Parker became director of Oakland's Feminist Women's Health Center and in 1980 she founded the Black Women's Revolutionary Council, a group of revolutionary feminists intended to educate people about the effects of racism, classism, and sexism. Her other works included Womanslaughter (1978), Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker, 1961–1978 (1978), and Jonestown and Other Madness (1985). The title poem from Jonestown and Other Madness alludes to the mass murder-suicide that took place at the People Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana in 1978 at the behest of charismatic cult leader Jim Jones. About 70 percent of the number of victims in Jonestown were Black.
African American feminist lesbian poet Pat Parker (1944–1989) published her first book of poetry, Child of Myself, in 1972. In 1978 Parker became director of Oakland's Feminist Women's Health Center and in 1980 she founded the Black Women's Revolutionary Council, a group of revolutionary feminists intended to educate people about the effects of racism, classism, and sexism. Her other works included Womanslaughter (1978), Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker, 1961–1978 (1978), and Jonestown and Other Madness (1985). The title poem from Jonestown and Other Madness alludes to the mass murder-suicide that took place at the People Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana in 1978 at the behest of charismatic cult leader Jim Jones. About 70 percent of the number of victims in Jonestown were Black.
ISBN 10: 0932379001