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Signed poster: Suzan-Lori Parks' "Getting Mother's Body"

Item Number
115
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
15 USD to trumpetista
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

Signed foamcore promotional poster for Suzan-Lori Parks' Getting Mother's Body. Poster is from Parks' Spring 2003 appearance at the Center for New Words in support of the book.

In Getting Mother's Body, Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae's burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket.

Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most exciting and acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog and is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, among her many other honors. Parks has said of her presentations: “My lectures aren’t your typical writer-behind-the-podium evening – audiences call them ‘the Suzan-Lori Parks show.’” Her talks are part performance, part storytelling – always high energy, with an inspired sense of humor.

*From the Steven Barclay Agency

Item Special Note

Board is NOT in mint condition. The corners are bent and there is a crease in the middle of the board and in the bottom-right corner. Board measurement = 36" x 24"

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