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Stephany (StephanyFuller, 1118 E. Hyde Park Blvd.) is a young black poet-artist whose first collection of poems, MOVING DEEP(Broadside Press, $1) explores a seldom touched area in black poetry, the love of a woman for her man. These are poems of feeling, of direction and commitment, of needs fulfilled and hopessustained:- - *And in the quietof the afternoon when the lonely roam.I turn inside and youare with me still. I roamed a thousand miles before you came.STEPHANYMore Stephany writes head-nodding poems that sense the subtler contradictions :Think to think at each encounterwe will be strangers still even after making love and long conversations even after meals and showerstogether.MOVING DEEP continues the tradition of Billie, Dinah and Aretha, in poetic form, because it is honest, originaland involving:Stay a little longer,1 for no other reason than it• iisgood not to be alone always let there be a song ofremembering and not knowing what is there except a warmth and a blossom of a feeling. . .Move deep with Stephany and you will want to “stay alittle longer, for not other reason than it is good. .
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Hyde Park Herald
Hyde Park, Illinois, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1970
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