Welcome to the Saint Heron Library, a literary center dedicated to students, artists, creatives and general book/literature enthusiasts interested in exploring and studying the breadth of artistic expression. Our focus is to propel the advancement of education, knowledge production, creative inspiration and skill development through culturally relevant Black and Brown literary works. Offered seasonally with book selections by guest curators, this new collection highlights renowned and modern artists practicing within various themes of poetry, visual art, critical thought, design and much more. These works can be borrowed by readers for 45-days, free of costs to our U.S. based community.

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AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Saint Heron

Research Journal

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AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Saint Heron

Research Journal

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AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Saint Heron

Research Journal

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AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Saint Heron

Research Journal

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A Daughter's Geography

Ntozake Shange

Poetry

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American Negro Art

Cedric Dover

Art Catalogue

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An Ordinary Woman

Lucille Clifton

Poetry

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Art at the Edge, Houston Cownwill

Susan Krane

Art

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Between the Lines

Benny Andrews

Visual Art / Essays

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Black Artists on Art Vol. 1

Ruth G. Waddy

Art Catalogue

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Black Artists on Art Vol. 2

Ruth G. Waddy

Art Catalogue

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Black Dance

Edward Thorpe

Arts & Photography

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Black Gods of the Metropolis

Arthur Huff Fauset

Non-Fiction / History

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Black Like Me

Fred Wilson

Exhibition Catalogue

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Black Woman Sorrow

Rosa Bogar

Poetry

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Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler

Sci-Fi

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Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone

David Vassar Taylor & Paul Clifford Larson

Monograph

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Catgut - The Opera

Rhea Dillon

Art & Photography

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Chase-Riboud

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Exhibition Catalogue

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Children Coming Home

Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry

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Civil Wars

June Jordan

Anthology

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Clarion Issue I

Kandis Williams & 52 Walker

Arts & Photography

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Clay's Ark

Octavia Butler

Science Fiction

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Coal

Audre Lorde

Poetry

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Dark Waters: Vol. 3 No. 1

Colleen J. McElroy (Editor)

African-American Literary Journal

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Dimensions Of Black

Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk

Exhibition Catalogue

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Earthquakes and Sun Rise Missions: Poetry and Essays of Black Renewal

Haki R Mahubuti

Poetry / Essay

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Eldorado Ballroom 2023 Vol. 1

Saint Heron Press

Art Catalogue

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Embryo

Quincy Troupe

Poetry

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Fifth Sunday

Rita Dove

Poetry / Fiction

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Flying Piranha

Ted Joans and Joyce Mansour

Poetry

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Forty Years of Printmaking: A Retrospective, 1948-1988

Warrington Colescott

Exhibition Catalogue

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Gary Simmons: Ghost House

Gary Simmons, Avery F. Gordon & Louis Grachos

Installation Art / Essay

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In Our Terribleness

Imamu Amiri Baraka & Fundi

Prose Poetry

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Judith Jamison: Aspects of a Dancer

Olga Maynard

Biography

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Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts

Dreck Spurlock Wilson

Non-Fiction / History

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Just Us

Claudia Rankine

Poetry

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KICK: Black, Gay & Fierce Urban Culture

Miscellaneous

Zine

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LA TETE

Julianna Free

Prose Poetry / Illustration / Photography

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Left of Karl Marx

Carol Boyce Davies

Political

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Lumumba ou l'Afrique frustrée

Luiz Lopez Alvarez

Essay

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Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth

Pearl Cleage

Non-Fiction

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Mad Dog Black Lady

Wanda Coleman

Poetry

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Madam Zenobia's Space Age Lucky Eleven Dream and Astrology Book

Madam Zenobia

Astrology / Numerology

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Maren Hassinger, 1972-1991

Maren Hassinger

Exhibition Catalogue

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Meteor In A Black Hat

Bob Thompson

Exhibition Catalogue

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Michael in Black

Nicole Miller

Monograph / Arts & Photography

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My One Good Nerve

Ruby Dee

Short Stories / Essays

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Native in a Strange Land

Wanda Coleman

Non-Fiction

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No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black

Houston A. Baker

Poetry

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No Pain Like This Body

Harold Sonny Ladoo

Fiction

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Of Tulips and Shadows

Dewey Crumpler

Exhibition Catalogue

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Otán Iyebiyé: Las Piedras Preciosas

Lydia Cabrera

Afro-Cuban Folklore

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Poems From Prison

Etheridge Knight

Poetry

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Public and Personal

Martin Puryear

Exhibition Catalogue

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Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987

Adrian Piper

Exhibition Catalogue

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Revolution In Guinea: An African People's Struggle

Colleen J. McElroy

African-American Literary Journal

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Shakespeare in Harlem

Langston Hughes

Poetry

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Spell #7

Ntozake Shange

Choreopoem

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The Architectural Legacy of Wallace A. Rayfield: Pioneer Black Architect of Birmingham, Alabama

Allen R. Durough (Author)

Biography

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The Art of Henry O. Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Exhibition Catalogue

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The Black Unicorn

Audre Lorde

Poetry

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The Clearing and Beyond

May Miller

Poetry

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The Friendliest Black Artist in America

William Pope.L

Arts & Photography

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The Meeting Point

Austin Clarke

Psychological Fiction

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The Soft Voice of the Serpent

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction

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The Theme is Blackness

Ed Bullins

Drama

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The Voices of Negritude

Julio Finn

Drama

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Trophy Room

William Pope.L

Exhibition Catalogue

Solange Knowles & Shantel Aurora in Conversation: Azurest Blue – The Life & Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

What began in 2020 as a research project became a form of communion: Black women together, immersed in the echoes of an ancestor through the blueprints, notes and love letters, and personal scrapbooks in her archive. This conversation between Solange Knowles and Shantel Aurora contextualizes that in reflections on the book’s creative and research processes. Delayed in part by a global pandemic, they discuss how timely the book’s official release into the world reflects the patience, wonder, and care that directly aligns with Meredith’s multi-faceted life and career.

Created, designed and produced entirely in-house through Saint Heron Press, this publication also features written contributions from artist Ferren Gipson, poet Briona Simone Jones, architect Pascale Sablan, historian Jerald “Coop” Cooper, and writer/editor Shantel Aurora. Azurest Blue: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith gathers the echoes and relays them in a collection of notes passed between generations.

Shantel Aurora:

When you first mentioned this project surrounding Amaza Lee Meredith to the team, it was February 2020. And when we first started actually researching, there was nothing on Google about this woman, like, at all, and now there's so much. But I think the pace at which we worked at this was so important. Now that the book is finally here, how do you feel?

Solange Knowles:

I feel like the spirit of Amaza is really present right now and sort of demanding that resurrection. Timing is so important, and I think that we as a team try to be really, really thoughtful and intentional about timing. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that we all have our personal lives. You and I are both mothers. We balance other jobs and other projects. And I think one of the really beautiful things, so to speak, when you talk about pace, is sort of doing that alongside the research of Amaza’s life and seeing how many different phases and evolutions she had. It echoed, sort of, what evolutions we all kind of personally had starting from before the pandemic until now. So it feels very aligned, very cosmic. And I think in the spirit of her name really being at the forefront of so many conversations right now, it just feels like an honor to add to that. And how do you feel?

SA:

I think I'm gonna weep when this is actually, finally announced to the public. It feels like each writer had a personal conversation with Amaza’s spirit through the materials, and that's what makes this book so unique. I feel like if we’d time traveled and come back — each saying, in our own words what we took from the conversations we had with her about the specific evolutions of her life, that this is a record of that.

Azurest Blue honors her in a way that I feel like she would be so grateful to see, but I also feel like she would know she’s been that girl. Like she did all the things. And even hearing you talk about us juggling all of these different parts of our lives, I connect that to Amaza too because building her home, Azurest South, was done while she was teaching in college and sort of building the arts department there at Virginia state. So, I feel very connected to the work and just really proud of it. I really think I'm gonna cry.

SK:

I probably will too, and I think we're allowed to. I think we've grown very, very close to her through this work. I also think that the sort of homecoming of her story, being able to have the potential to connect with so many people who dream big — that's why in the foreword, when I was writing my Editor's Note, I talked about anyone who wants to build a house with their own hands. I think it's just so aspirational to be a Black woman and to think about a Black woman more than 50 years prior to our existence already sort of paving that way for us, and walking that walk, and talking that talk, I think it's going to resonate with so many people. It's such a prime time in the space of arts and culture to uplift the story of a Black woman architect and designer. There's a curiosity and interest right now in design and architecture, so to be able to contextualize that this incredible Black woman was self taught and able to have such a modernist futurist lens on the way she saw the world and all of the different facets of that, implementing through the architecture, it's so timely.

SA:

Can you talk a little about how the research or editing process shifted how you understood Amaza and her creative practice, and how that connects with you being a multidisciplinary artist?

SK:

One of the things that I really, really connected with is this idea of having an idea, and then building all of the landscape that surrounds it. To hear a woman say, “okay, not only does Virginia State need to have this art department, I'm going to create the curriculum. I'm going to create the department. I'm going to design the flyer and the materials that give this messaging. I'm also going to design the actual building and build it, and I'm going to build a home for me and my partner” — sort of blurring the lines of life is art and the imagination to be so limitless, and the way that an idea can come to life is truly the woman that I aspire to be and to reflect. It's always such an honor when people share with me how they feel like my own aspirations across mediums inspire them because it feels very natural for me. It doesn't feel like necessarily a journey I intended to go on. I see sort of the domino effect of how one limitation sort of opens a new one and expression. So it's like, I dance and I choreograph because there's things that I can't emote with my voice, that can only come from my knees and my feet. To see that reflected so far beyond my imagination, it just gives me fuel to continue that path and to also create recognition.

I get really frustrated in these conversations of “who did it first,” the competitiveness that can permeate from the outside world amongst Black women and creators in general. I always like to point to the fact that it’s nothing new under the sun that hasn't been done by a Black woman. An outstanding Black woman. This was a woman in the ‘20s and ‘30s who knew no bounds. It just gives me the fuel, especially as I transition now into the academic space, to know what her journey encompassed, and how much of a reflection that is on my own. I feel less alone and more supported by her spirit. And that research, being able to see the records of that, was really fascinating. But to also see the records of her personal love story, and her love story to herself, to her partner, that devotion. Even carrying out her father's legacy as a self taught architect. There's so many love stories in this book and it's really cool to see the width of that.

I appreciate your tenacity, going back and looking deeper and digging deeper and being limitless in your own research. I'd love for you to talk through, especially in the wake of the pandemic, challenges that we had, what that process was like for you.

SA:

It was a challenge because I just wanted to make sure we did right by her. It’s difficult to sort of balance the intimacy of all we got to come into contact with and how publishing that sort of opens up her world, but through our view. So, it was a challenge because the pandemic blocked us from accessing Amaza’s papers for so long. Campuses were operating remotely during the bulk of this time and I wanted to make sure that she was honored, wholly.

Coming so close to all the materials she preserved and kept made this project so personal for me. And I’m grateful you had the team stick with this and kept us in touch with VSU for the right time to get down there and dive into her archives because I knew nothing about architecture when you first mentioned this. But that in itself opened my world to how male dominated the architectural space is, but it also just made me pay so much more attention to the physical world around me and who made what.

So I feel like through Amaza’s spirit, I sort of became more present today. So because it's made such a tremendous impact on me, I feel like it's going to make that same impact on other people who are just coming into not only Black women in architecture, but architecture in general like me. I feel so proud of this. And I really do feel like she would too. Because it feels like I personally know her now. You know?

SK:

I think we all feel that, yeah. I think everybody has such a unique connection to the parts of her that sort of resonate within themselves the most, and that's what I really love about the book as well because through the contributors, there's unique perspectives that connect with all of these different facets for her life —

SA:

And it's so fly because we have Pascale, a Black woman architect who wrote about Amaza’s architectural genius through her lens, Briona, who's already an amazing lesbian poet and writer sharing Amaza and Edna’s love story through her lens. The book really touches on so much of this multifaceted woman’s life with personal connection. That's so fly.

SK:

Yeah, that was very intentional. When I learned more and began deepening my own research of her life, there was this multiplicity that made it important to assign writers who could really personalize the interpretation of that story, and who were sort of experts in that field, of what she embodied.

So thinking about the conversations in response to her blueprints, being able to pair that with Pascale's knowledge was so fascinating because in my own experience with design, I'm able to look at a blueprint and interpret what that looks like. But to have that kind of expertise and that type of interpretation, I thought was so special. Her observation of even blueprints that didn't come to life and how multi-dimensional they were. By design, having all of these unique voices really paint a full picture of her was always the point.

SA:

Tell me a little bit about how you even came across Amaza and her work.

SK:

I was really taking an interest in Black architects around 2019 and I would just search for different Black architects throughout history. When I came across her name, I couldn't really find anything on her but I stored it in my memory bank. Then, T Magazine did a story on Sag Harbor and the history of the community being rooted in Black families. They briefly mentioned Amaza and I thought “that name sounds really familiar.” So I went back and looked at my notes, and I put two and two together that this was the same woman. And that was really interesting to me, because I only knew her from my previous search looking for Black women architects. To see her in this new context, as a developer of this rich, storied neighborhood, initially I wasn't even sure if it could be the same person. I looked further into it and realized it was the same person. I thought, wow, what does it mean to actually build a home, but to also say, I want to take this further, and I actually want to develop an entire neighborhood for us to have leisure and access to nature and safety and community and connection and legacy, and how truly bold it was at that time, especially to be led by a Black woman. I thought, well if she did that, what else did she do that I don't know about? Just thinking about how brave she had to be during that time. And so that was what piqued my curiosity is those two intersections meeting together.

And as we know, I'm a big Donald Judd fan and his philosophies on the land and the space that surrounds the work being as imminent as the work itself. There have been a lot of examples of that throughout history, in terms of Black artists who define the space around the work, but few of those examples are at the forefront, coming from Black women that early on. So when I think about Julia Perry or Mary Lou Williams, I feel like Amaza sits right there too. That was what piqued my interest. And at the time, I was struggling to find information about her — and this is how it always works with Saint Heron. Always a need and a frustration and a problem; and that always plants the seed to say, well, if somebody else hasn't done it, we have to do it, because we need answers, we have questions. I have questions that need answers. And I feel so incredibly lucky to have y'all as a team to help facilitate those answers and to be as curious as I am. It's been an incredible journey.

SA:

I want to talk a little bit about Azurest. First of all, it’s my new favorite color, Azurest Blue. But because we talk so much about all the things she did do, I think it's important to acknowledge the importance of rest and respite to her. Even through her home, how she had certain spaces that were designated for, maybe studio work, and then another for peace. In her scrapbook, she wrote like “peace of mind,” “window seat,” and things like that under photographs of certain spaces in the home. You can tell rest was necessary for her. To think about how she prioritized rest even among all the work she did, when it was likely twice as hard without all the access we have now, it’s incredible.

SK:

It's hard to imagine, right? She fulfills so many roles and also in so many geographical spaces, sort of tracking her journey from Virginia to New York to Harlem, then Sag Harbor, and she briefly lived in Brooklyn as well, that really resonates with me. Also the boudoir and having sort of a designated space built in and designed even for her partner to rest. I think that as I expand and deepen in all of my practices, I recognize how urgent it is to have time where the brain and the mind is at rest, and I really admire her building that into her practice in a physical way, a spiritual way, and a philosophical way. I haven't mastered that yet, but through learning about her story and the intentional designation of rest, you're absolutely right. There's something very reflective in that, that I think we all could learn from her.

SA:

She even went as far as to build this beach community specifically for that. For vacation homes, for Black people to be able to get away and just take a breather, like you said, among community. She wanted us all to know rest.

SK:

I agree. One of the things that I have been revisiting quite a bit is her letter to Dr. Edgar Allan Toppin, who was the dean at Virginia State after her retirement. The letter has all these really, really interesting notes and reflections, but I love the sense of humor that you got to witness. That's one of my favorite pages in the book I've been really living with because being able to have that self-awareness to literally list your own embarrassing moments, and funniest experiences — It's so humanizing. You could become almost intimidated by her brilliance. 

So that was a moment that I love seeing, because it reminds you, no matter how brilliant, how intellectual, there's this peek at her personality that you get to see, her at play and her human spirit and all the ways it resonated with us all. 

 

We're oftentimes not allowed to even define things as what they are, right? Which is the same thing that other people suffer from. They get labels… So anything to at all help us process sad feelings, I think, is incredibly important. But the funny thing about that book was I was sitting here and a guy came in and he was like, "How did you get this book?" It was signed by her. He was like, "This is my aunt. How did you get this book?" He was floored. That's the only other copy I've ever had. He has it. So, it's y'all's copy and his copy, and he was like, "This is my aunt." He started calling all his family. He actually ended up working at NBC, so he did an article on the store about the fact that he found that book. So something drew me to it, and he had never seen it before. It was almost like it chose me because it wanted to be in the space and needed to reconnect. That happens more often than I can say.

AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Azurest Blue is a research journal honoring visionary architect, educator, and artist Amaza Lee Meredith — founder of Virginia State University’s art department and co-developer of Sag Harbor’s Azurest North community. A pioneering Black queer woman and one of the earliest voices in feminine architectural expression, Meredith designed her own home (now the VSU Alumni House) and used architecture as a language of empowerment, sanctuary, and self-determination.

The volume features five commissioned essays, each reflecting on a different facet of Meredith’s life and work. Together, they form a collective dialogue on her legacy — enriched by original photographs, letters, blueprints, and materials from her meticulous archives.

15 COPIES AVAILABLE

Saint Heron

AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Azurest Blue is a research journal honoring visionary architect, educator, and artist Amaza Lee Meredith — founder of Virginia State University’s art department and co-developer of Sag Harbor’s Azurest North community. A pioneering Black queer woman and one of the earliest voices in feminine architectural expression, Meredith designed her own home (now the VSU Alumni House) and used architecture as a language of empowerment, sanctuary, and self-determination.

The volume features five commissioned essays, each reflecting on a different facet of Meredith’s life and work. Together, they form a collective dialogue on her legacy — enriched by original photographs, letters, blueprints, and materials from her meticulous archives.

15 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Saint Heron

AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Azurest Blue is a research journal honoring visionary architect, educator, and artist Amaza Lee Meredith — founder of Virginia State University’s art department and co-developer of Sag Harbor’s Azurest North community. A pioneering Black queer woman and one of the earliest voices in feminine architectural expression, Meredith designed her own home (now the VSU Alumni House) and used architecture as a language of empowerment, sanctuary, and self-determination.

The volume features five commissioned essays, each reflecting on a different facet of Meredith’s life and work. Together, they form a collective dialogue on her legacy — enriched by original photographs, letters, blueprints, and materials from her meticulous archives.

15 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Saint Heron

AZUREST BLUE: The Life and Legacy of Amaza Lee Meredith

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Azurest Blue is a research journal honoring visionary architect, educator, and artist Amaza Lee Meredith — founder of Virginia State University’s art department and co-developer of Sag Harbor’s Azurest North community. A pioneering Black queer woman and one of the earliest voices in feminine architectural expression, Meredith designed her own home (now the VSU Alumni House) and used architecture as a language of empowerment, sanctuary, and self-determination.

The volume features five commissioned essays, each reflecting on a different facet of Meredith’s life and work. Together, they form a collective dialogue on her legacy — enriched by original photographs, letters, blueprints, and materials from her meticulous archives.

15 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Saint Heron

A Daughter's Geography

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Ntozake Shange's second book of poetry mapping the expanding horizons of the black imagination, feeling and memory.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Ntozake Shange

American Negro Art

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A picture book of responses to needs, situations, surroundings and ideas in an anthology of Black American Art.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Cedric Dover

An Ordinary Woman

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Lucille Clifton reflects on her identity in her third collection of poetry.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Lucille Clifton

Art at the Edge, Houston Cownwill

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Houston Eugene Conwill was an American multidisciplinary artist known best for large-scale public sculptural installations. Conwill was a sculptor, painter, and performance and conceptual artist whose site-specific works explore and celebrate spirituality and African-American artists, activists, and intellectuals.

This book is an exhibition catalogue of his The Cakewalk Humanifesto: A Cultural Libation show in 1989 at MOMA in New York.

0 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Susan Krane

Between the Lines

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Collection of works surveying the Black experience by American artist, activist and educator Benny Andrews.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Benny Andrews

Black Artists on Art Vol. 1

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Book series exploring the works and lives of 91 artists, including personal statements and work in traditional media as well as installation art, mixed media, and digital/computer art.

1 COPY AVAILABLE 

Ruth G. Waddy

Black Artists on Art Vol. 2

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Book series exploring the works and lives of 91 artists, including personal statements and work in traditional media as well as installation art, mixed media, and digital/computer art.

3 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Ruth G. Waddy

Black Dance

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A sprawling, in-depth study of Black dance that traces contemporary, modern and ballet origins to Africa in profiles of Josephine Baker, "Honi" Coles and "Cholly" Atkins, Pearl Primus, Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, Arthur Mitchell, and more.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Edward Thorpe

Black Gods of the Metropolis

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Civil rights activist, educator and author Arthur Huff's 1971 study and prophecy of African American religion's origins and impact on the future.

4 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Arthur Huff Fauset

Black Like Me

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Fred Wilson displays his growing interest in the medium of glass in a solo exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Fred Wilson

Black Woman Sorrow

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Oral poetry by Rosa Bogar transcribed and edited by Maurice W. Britts.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Rosa Bogar

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

This short story collection includes Octavia E. Butler’s imaginative parables written between 1971 and 2003, including the Hugo and the Nebula awards-winner “Bloodchild.”

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Octavia E. Butler

Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A detailed history commemorating the life, achievments and legacy of the first African American municipal architect in the nation, Clarence "Cap" Wington.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

David Vassar Taylor & Paul Clifford Larson

Catgut - The Opera

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Based on artist Rhea Dillon’s 2021 performance of Catgut – The Opera, this book offers written responses and companion pieces to the libretto including photographic documentation, an essay by Jessica Lynne, a poem by Simone White, an extensive conversation between Dillon and Elaine Mitchener discussing the trials of performance as an artistic practice.

3 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Rhea Dillon

Chase-Riboud

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Catalogue created on occasion of exhibition at the University Art Museum Berkeley from January 17 through February 25, 1973.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Children Coming Home

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A series of poems about the young people Gwendolyn Brooks observed in her daily life.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Gwendolyn Brooks

Civil Wars

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Collection of essays, speeches, and letters as a meditation on poetry and politics and a discussion of language and power.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

June Jordan

Clarion Issue I

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

The debut print volume from director of 52 Walker, David Zwirner Gallery – and our library’s season 2 guest curator – Ebony L. Haynes’s own imprint.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Kandis Williams & 52 Walker

Clay's Ark

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A novel about a microscopic invasion on one's humanity and one man's fight and terrible acceptance of defeat against them.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Octavia Butler

Coal

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Audre Lorde's 1976 poetry collection exploring themes related to the several layers of her identity.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Audre Lorde

Dark Waters: Vol. 3 No. 1

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

African-American literary journal featuring contributions from Black writers.

3 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Colleen J. McElroy (Editor)

Dimensions Of Black

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Cataloging art historian Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk’s 1970 exhibition curated at the La Jolla Museum of Art (today known as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego), this book is an expansive exploration of Black art that includes a visual survey of objects from the tribal areas of Africa, contemporary painting and sculpture, and more.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk

Earthquakes and Sun Rise Missions: Poetry and Essays of Black Renewal

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Collection of works by author, educator, and poet Haki R Mahubuti.

3 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Haki R Mahubuti

Eldorado Ballroom 2023 Vol. 1

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Eldorado Ballroom 2023 Book is a zine publication celebrating Saint Heron’s inaugural live performance and arts series, curated by Solange Knowles. Presented in spring 2023 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the program honored intergenerational expressions of experimental performance, highlighting both contemporary and historic Black practitioners whose artistry has profoundly shaped music and performance art.

30 COPIES AVAILABLE

 

Saint Heron Press

Embryo

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A collection of introspective poetry 1967-1971 from by Quincy Troupe.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Quincy Troupe

Fifth Sunday

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A collection of introspective poetry 1967-1971 from by Quincy Troupe.

3 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Rita Dove

Flying Piranha

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A surrealist collaboration between Ted Joans and Joyce Mansour.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Ted Joans and Joyce Mansour

Forty Years of Printmaking: A Retrospective, 1948-1988

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Catalogue of the retrospective exhibition, Warrington Colescott, forty years of printmaking: 1948-1988 at Elvehjem Museum of Art.

4 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Warrington Colescott

Gary Simmons: Ghost House

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Installation and drawings by Gary Simmons. Essays by Avery F. Gordon and Louis Grachos.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Gary Simmons, Avery F. Gordon & Louis Grachos

In Our Terribleness

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A contemplation of the glory, rhythm, bluster, wit, and fury of ordinary Blackness.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Imamu Amiri Baraka & Fundi

Judith Jamison: Aspects of a Dancer

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

The story of a brilliant American Dancer and the Troupe of performing artists with whom her name became synonymous, the Alvin Ailey, American Dance Theater.

3 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Olga Maynard

Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Dreck Spurlock Wilson uses scholarly research to paint a vivid portrait honoring the life and work of unsung Black architect Julian Abele and The Beaux Arts.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Dreck Spurlock Wilson

Just Us

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

In this collection of essays, poems and images, Claudia Rankine recounts racial encounters to interrogate “what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness.”

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Claudia Rankine

KICK: Black, Gay & Fierce Urban Culture

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

A zine commemorating the 1st annual Black Pride Celebration.

1 COPY AVAILABLE 

Miscellaneous

LA TETE

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Meditations on Blackness and femininity through prose and photography.

2 COPIES AVAILABLE 

Julianna Free

Left of Karl Marx

Terms

The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library is home to primarily out-of-print, rare, and first-edition books. 

Please handle all titles with care.

The library is free of charge and operates on an honor-based borrowing system through online registration. It is open exclusively to U.S.-based residents. Each borrower may reserve one book per person, with requests fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Books will be shipped directly to borrowers with complimentary shipping and return postage, ensuring the library remains free to readers. 

All borrowed books must be returned within 45 days of check-out. Lost or damaged books will be charged market value to the borrower with the credit card information stored on file. Books not renewed (if applicable) or returned to the Saint Heron Community Library following three reminder notices, nor explanation, will be deemed lost and will be subject to charge.

Carole Boyce Davies chronicles the activism, writing, and legacy of pioneering the Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist and feminist.Claudia Jones (1915–1964).

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Carol Boyce Davies

Lumumba ou l'Afrique frustrée

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Renowned playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist Pearl Cleage enlightens readers on the complexities and silences of relationship abuse between Black men and women.

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Luiz Lopez Alvarez

Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth

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Renowned playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist Pearl Cleage enlightens readers on the complexities and silences of relationship abuse between Black men and women.

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Pearl Cleage

Mad Dog Black Lady

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The first book of poetry from Los Angeles’s unofficial poet laureate spanning identity, sexuality and emotion through the lens of low-income Black American women.

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Wanda Coleman

Madam Zenobia's Space Age Lucky Eleven Dream and Astrology Book

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Dream and astrology book interpreting the twelve sun signs of the zodiac based on truth and harmony with the universe.

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Madam Zenobia

Maren Hassinger, 1972-1991

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Hillwood Art Museum including images of the artist's artwork that spans across her career.

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Maren Hassinger

Meteor In A Black Hat

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A fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue, dedicated to Carol Plenda Thompson, the artist’s late wife.

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Bob Thompson

Michael in Black

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Newly-commissioned and republished texts and images from a cohort of writers and visual artists complete this sculpture-specific monograph focusing on Michael in Black (2018), a bronze cast of Michael Jackson's kneeling figure by artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller.

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Nicole Miller

My One Good Nerve

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A collection of short stories, poems and reflections, ranging in subject matter from racism to love.

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Ruby Dee

Native in a Strange Land

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Known as the “LA Blueswoman,” poet, storyteller and journalist Wanda Coleman, reflects on three decades of “the restless emotional topography of LA” in this collection of essays, interviews and articles/columns.

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Wanda Coleman

No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black

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“No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black” is the title of a 1979 poetry collection by Houston A. Baker Jr., a leading literary critic and educator. The work explores how race and the realities of Black identity remain constant, no matter the setting. It underscores the lasting influence of Black history, culture, and struggle on personal perspective and experience, even when one moves across different places.

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Houston A. Baker

No Pain Like This Body

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Set in Trinidad at the beginning of the twentieth century, this story describes the perils of a poor East Indian rice-growing family, their struggles to cope with illness and a drunken, unpredictable father, and the violence of the elemental struggle.

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Harold Sonny Ladoo

Of Tulips and Shadows

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Visual musings by the artist issued in connection with an exhibition held at the California African American Museum exhibition (2009-2009).

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Dewey Crumpler

Otán Iyebiyé: Las Piedras Preciosas

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The third volume of Lydia Cabrera's “cuentos negros” Ayapá: Cuentos de Jicotea, a collection of short stories rooted in Afro-Cuban legends.

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Lydia Cabrera

Poems From Prison

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1968 debut book of poetry by African American poet Etheridge Knight.

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Etheridge Knight

Public and Personal

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Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 7 through April 4, 1987. Foreword and acknowledgements by Gregory G. Knight. Introduction by Deven K. Golden. Essays by Judith Russi Kirshner and Patricia Fuller. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations.

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Martin Puryear

Adrian Piper: Reflections 1967-1987

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Catalogue of the retrospective exhibition, Adrian Piper: Reflections, 1967-1987, at Alternative Museum in New York.

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Adrian Piper

Revolution In Guinea: An African People's Struggle

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Colleen J. McElroy

Shakespeare in Harlem

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A garland of verses about the "dream deferred" to which Lorraine Hansberry refers in "Raisin in the Sun."

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Langston Hughes

Spell #7

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Ntozake Shange celebrates the Black experience in a series of poetic stage sketches, "Spell No. 7," "Boogie Woogie Landscapes," and "A Photograph: Lovers in Motion."

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Ntozake Shange

The Architectural Legacy of Wallace A. Rayfield: Pioneer Black Architect of Birmingham, Alabama

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In the early 1990s, hundreds of architectural drawings, plans, and artworks by African American architect Wallace A. Rayfield were discovered in a Bessemer, Alabama barn. This volume brings that legacy to light with 159 illustrations documenting his career across two continents.

Born in 1873, Rayfield studied at Howard, Pratt, and Columbia before teaching at Tuskegee and establishing his Birmingham practice. Best known for his church designs—including the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church—he also created schools, offices, homes, and projects as far as Africa, many through mail-order commissions.

The book offers catalog-style entries on six building types, a listing of 359 known structures in 19 states, and a biographical sketch, along with examples of his artwork and advertisements—restoring the life and legacy of a visionary architect.

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Allen R. Durough (Author)

The Art of Henry O. Tanner

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Catalogue of 81 works showcasing important early retrospective from 1859-1937 of paintings by the artist who specialized in religious subjects.

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Henry Ossawa Tanner

The Black Unicorn

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A collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet."

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Audre Lorde

The Clearing and Beyond

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May Miller's fifth collection of poems, partly a re-issue of her 1959 collection "Into the Clearing," as well as a selection of later poems culled from various journals and magazines.

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May Miller

The Friendliest Black Artist in America

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Accompanying a nationally touring exhibition of William Pope.L's work, this book explores his impact on American art and culture in essays by Mark H. C. Bessire, Suzanne Preston Blier, C. Carr, Geoffrey Hendricks and more, plus a selection of the artist's own writings.

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William Pope.L

The Meeting Point

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The first book in Austin Clarke's acclaimed trilogy about a group of West Indian domestics, their friends, lovers, spouses and employers living in Toronto.

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Austin Clarke

The Soft Voice of the Serpent

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A 1952 collection of twenty-one short stories reminiscent of the South African writer's culture.

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Nadine Gordimer

The Theme is Blackness

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Fifteen plays written between 1965 and 1970 are presented with the playwright's comments on the modern role of the Black theater.

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Ed Bullins

The Voices of Negritude

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An exploration of the typosphere or the awareness that modernist poetry in its print form should render the oral heritage and the rhythms of the spoken words and sounds visually.

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Julio Finn

Trophy Room

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Collection of works by visual and performance artist William L Pope.

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William Pope.L

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