Chicago: Free Black Press, 1970. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. 24pp. Moderate foxing/spotting to front cover and underlying leaf; oxidation to staples; musty. Very good.
First of two collections of verse by an author who died, apparently quite young, in January 1972; published while she was a student at Northeastern State College in Chicago. Poems exploring various social and political facets of Black womanhood. Introduction by Eugene Perkins. N.B. The second printing amends the title's "Calling" to "Callin'."
