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Parker, Pat 1944-1989

Movement in Black: the collected poetry of Pat Parker, 1961-1978. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1999.

Jonestown & other madness: poetry. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985.

Movement in Black : the collected poetry of Pat Parker.[Foreword by Audre Lorde; introduction by Judy Grahn; graphics by Wendy Cadden, Irmajean, Karen Sjoholm.] Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.

Womanslaughter. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.

Pit stop. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1973, 1975.

Child of myself. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1972, 1974.

Videos/Recorded Readings

Recording of Pat & Audre reading from the 1980s
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/bundles/238556

“Pat Parker and Audre Lorde: February 7, 1986.” APA, 1986. Poetry Center Digital Archive, diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/bundles/238556.

Tribute to Parker from the tribute at the Women’s Building
https://poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29152-poetry-and-protest-audre-lorde-and-...

Work about Pat Parker

Ali, Kazim. “The Killer Will Remain Free: On Pat Parker and the Poetics of Madness.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2015, pp. 379–383. doi:10.1080/10894160.2015.1028281.
Annas, Pamela. “A Poetry of Survival: Unnaming and Renaming in the Poetry of Audre Lorde, Pat Parker, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich.” Colby Library Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, Mar. 1982, pp. 9–25.
Avilez, GerShun. Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire. University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Brimstone, Lyndie. “Pat Parker: A Tribute.” Feminist Review, vol. 34, no. 1, 1990, pp. 4–7., doi:10.1057/fr.1990.2.
Clarke, Cheryl, and Julie R. Enszer. “Introduction: ‘Where Would I Be Without You.’” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2015, pp. 275–289., doi:10.1080/10894160.2015.1028238.
Green, David B. “‘Anything That Gets Me in My Heart’: Pat Parker's Poetry of Justice.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2015, pp. 317–335., doi:10.1080/10894160.2015.1026705.
Smith, Barbara. “Naming the Unnameable: The Poetry of Pat Parker.” Conditions: Three vol. 1, Spring 1978, pp. 99-103.
Van Ausdall, Mimi Iimuro. “‘The Day All of the Different Parts of Me Can Come Along’: Intersectionality and U.S. Third World Feminism in the Poetry of Pat Parker and Willyce Kim.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2015, pp. 336–356., doi:10.1080/10894160.2015.1026708.
Washburn, Amy. “Unpacking Pat Parker: Intersections and Revolutions in ‘Movement in Black.’” Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2015, pp. 305–316., doi:10.1080/10894160.2015.1026704.
“‘I Have a Dream Too’: Pat Parker.” Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory, by Linda Garber, Columbia University Press, 2001, pp. 63–96.