Bibliography
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POETRY
- The Empress of the Death House, Lotus Press (Detroit), 1978.
- Natural Birth, Crossing Press (New York City), 198; Firebrand Books (Ann Arbor), 2000.
- Captivity, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1989.
- Tender, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
- The Undertaker's Daughter, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
OTHER
- (With Madeline Bass) Creative Writing: A Manual for Teachers (nonfiction), New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 1985.
- The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey (prose autobiography), Norton (New York City), 1997.
- Natural Birth, Firebrand Books, 2000.
- The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress, (sound recording, interview and reading by the author), 1998.
- (With Cornelius Eady) Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 2006.
Contributor to anthologies, including Ariadne's Thread: A Collection of Contemporary Women's Journals, edited by Lyn Lifshin, Harper, 1982; Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers, edited by Jane Cooper and others, Macmillan, 1982; Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, Persephone, 1982. Also contributor to An Introduction to Poetry, edited by Louise Simpson, 1986; Waltzing on the Water, Dell, and Early Ripening, edited by Marge Piercy. Contributor of poems to numerous periodicals, including Pequod, Iowa Review, Ironwood, Northwest Review; Poetry Northwest, American Poetry Review, Bread Loaf Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, and Feminist Studies.
