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Black lesbian feminist poet and health care worker Pat Parker died of cancer here June 17. She was 45.
Beginning to write about her lesbianism in the early 1970s when few others dared to do so, Parker emerged as one of the first contemporary openly lesbian poets. Her pioneering work appears in several volumes of poetry and in other groundbreaking anthologies. Her books of poetry include: Jonestown and Other Madness (Firebrand Books, 1985) and Movement in Black (Diana Press, 1978 and Crossing Press, 1983), Womanslaughter (Diana Press, 1978), and Pit Stop (Women's Press Collective, 1974), and Child of Myself (Shameless Hussy Press, 1971). Her work also appeared in I Never Told Anyone (Harper and Row, 1983), Home Girls (Kitchen Table:...