London: Next Editions in association with Faber & Faber, 1980
35 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
“Black Venus’s Tate is a description of a woman forced, involuntarily, to become a muse, done mostly from her own point of view, because you can only make a real person into a muse by ignoring the reality of them. The characters in this story bear an imaginative relation to the great poet, Charles Baudelaire and his mistress, Jeanne Duval aka Jeanne Prosper aka Jean Lemer; the story is about romanticism, negritude, colonialism, syphilis and contingency.” [Back cover].
Ringbound. Cover printed in black and orange