Nigga in the Woodpile [A rant: for James Watson, Bonnie Hardwick, et al.]

by J. [Jane] J. Phillips. Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2008. Limited Edition. [16p] with fold-out broadside poem, 5.25 x 6.5 inches, woodcut frontis, note on the poem, notes, folded 8.5 x 11 inch sheet letter in stereotype dialect with stereotype African Cannibal image with printed “signature” Crow Jane laid in at rear, record label for RCA Victor “Massa’s in de Cold, Cold Ground” record affixed inside rear cover.

One of 150 copies in sewn black wraps with die-cut holes on front and rear covers.

Separate publication of Phillips’ poem first published in Ismael Reed’s online magazine Konch.