SPOKEN WORD CD - Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
SPOKEN WORD—Compact Disc (2002) Almost twenty years since the overwhelming success of the spoken word cassette, Don’t Call Me a Bitch on the Mark Hyman Associates label, Kimmika Williams latest venture out, along with the music of Timothy Sheperd, is edgy musical treat complimented by hard-hitting poetry as only Williams can deliver it.
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10.00
EPIC MEMORY: PLACES AND SPACES I'VE BEEN
EPIC MEMORY: PLACES AND SPACES I’VE BEEN (1995) Three Goat Press One of the largest collections of Williams’ work to date, Epic Memory covers such diverse topics as poems about urban living, divorce, parenting, her travels throughout the Caribbean, to African American history and culture. Epic Memory includes such memorable pieces as: “ For Martin Luther King: After Listening to Gil Scott”, the conversation about sex between a mother and daughter, “Memory: Part 3”; and the spiritual odyssey, “Osiris: Intercede”. 170 pps.
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10.00
THEY NEVER TOLD ME THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS
THEY NEVER TOLD ME THERE’D BE DAYS LIKE THIS (2002) Three Goat Press Complete with a scholarly introduction on performance poetry and theatricality, They Never Told Me There’d Be Days Like This, is one of Williams’ most ambitious collections to date. If ethnography means observations and writings about people, Kimmika Williams’ poetic ethnographies push ethnographic research and the genre of field notes to a new level. Including the long-awaited publication of “Black Artists Must Struggle”, this collection looks at issues in the Black community, gender, and poems about love, sex and rocky roads; and includes tributes to Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni. 221pps.
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15.00
SIGNS OF THE TIME: CULTURE POP
SIGNS OF THE TIME: CULTURE POP (1999) Three Goat Press By 1999, Williams is fully entrenched in her work as an anthropologist. Coining the phrase to describe her work as “ethnopoetics”, Signs of the Times is chock-full of poetic ethnographies deconstructing notions of Black Popular Culture. Including pieces like: A “Buppie Awakening”, “Summer Headlines: Heavy From the Weight”, “Death By Injection”, “Superheroes Don’t Die” and “You Take Me Tripping Through Time”, Signs of the Time is a collection of personal stories and observations straight from the headlines! 138pps.
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10.00
NEGRO KINSHIP TO THE PARK
NEGRO KINSHIP TO THE PARK (1990) Selrahc Publications Inspired by a conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller, Negro Kinship to the Park, is a collection of poetry that firmly establishes Williams as a contemporary story teller and a cultural theorist. Including pieces like: “Whatchu Mean I Can’t Live Here”, written following the state of emergency in southwest Philadelphia in 1986 in response to racial tensions; “Young Girls Mothering”, a look at the phenomenon of teenage pregnancy and “For the Black Boys Who Came of Age in Nam”, written while a reporter and columnist with the “Philadelphia Tribune” as a culmination of a series of articles on Black Vietnam Vets for which she received the 1986 “Outstanding Journalism” Award. 98pps.
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5.00
ENVISIONIG A SEA OF DRY BONES
ENVISIONING A SEA OF DRY BONES (1994) Three Goat Press Including the dramatic monologue, “ Black Mother Praying In the 80’s” and the title piece, “Envisioning a Sea of Dry Bones” about the mysterious death of hundreds of Dolphins in 1987, this collection of poetry and prose includes the hit poem: “ There Was A Beast in Him Sometimes”. 71pps.
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5.00
BROTHER LOVE
Brother Love, as the next installment in the emerging genre of Poetic Performance Studies, takes poetic ethnography to a new level, with songs, poetry and essays taken right out of the pages of our local media. Dedicated to the memory of Black men as "Warrior- Knights", like Jerome Robinson, Samuel Hawes and Malcom X, Williams-Witherspoon "unpacks" issues of single parenting, love and political activism in the African American community as the definitions of Black manhood change post Y2K.
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15.00
THE ROAD HOME PRECARIOUS
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20.00
