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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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

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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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

00-61

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rosa Bogar

Bloodchild

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Rita Dove

Flying Piranha

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A surrealist collaboration between Ted Joans and Joyce Mansour.

Ted Joans and Joyce Mansour

Forty Years of Printmaking: A Retrospective, 1948-1988

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

Warrington Colescott

Gary Simmons: Ghost House

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

Gary Simmons, Avery F. Gordon & Louis Grachos

In Our Terribleness

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

Imamu Amiri Baraka & Fundi

Judith Jamison: Aspects of a Dancer

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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.

Olga Maynard

Julian Abele: Architect and the Beaux Arts

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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.

Dreck Spurlock Wilson

Just Us

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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.”

Claudia Rankine

KICK: Black, Gay & Fierce Urban Culture

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A zine commemorating the 1st annual Black Pride Celebration.

Miscellaneous

LA TETE

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Meditations on Blackness and femininity through prose and photography.

Julianna Free

Left of Karl Marx

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Lydia Cabrera

Poems From Prison

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

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.

Martin Puryear

Reflections 1967-1987

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

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."

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."

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.

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.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

The Black Unicorn

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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 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."

Audre Lorde

The Clearing and Beyond

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.

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.

May Miller

The Friendliest Black Artist in America

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.

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.

William Pope.L

The Meeting Point

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

Austin Clarke

The Soft Voice of the Serpent

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

Nadine Gordimer

The Theme is Blackness

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.

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

Ed Bullins

The Voices of Negritude

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.

 

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.

Julio Finn

Trophy Room

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 visual and performance artist William L Pope.

William Pope.L

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.