Watchers and Seekers: Creative Writing by Black Women
- ISBN-10
- 0872262022
- ISBN-13
- 9780872262027
- Category
- Blacks
- Pages
- 157
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Peter Bedrick Books
- Author
- Rhonda Cobham
Description
Poems and stories deal with the emotional and material interdependence of women, mother figures, and contemporary social and political issues
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- 1987
- 157 pages
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- Women's Press
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