Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems
Sonia Sanchez
(Author)
Description
Here is a collection of new love poems from Sonia Sanchez. In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sanchez writes of the many forms love takes: burning, dreamy, disappointed, and vulnerable. In three sections - Naked in the Streets, Shake Loose My Skin, and In This Wet Season - she takes us from the most intimate landscapes of passion to its public celebration in love poems dedicated to icons of our age, including Tupac Shakur and Ella Fitzgerald.Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Beacon Press
Publish Date
January 01, 1999
Pages
144
Dimensions
5.44 X 8.12 X 0.39 inches | 0.34 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780807068434
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About the Author
Sonia Sanchez is poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. Her numerous honors include the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award. she is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.
Reviews
Praise for Sonia Sanchez: "Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature's forest." -Maya Angelou "With an unblinking and critical poet's eye, Sonia Sanchez has been setting her readers straight, telling the 'terrible beauty, ' and reflecting images in ways that simultaneously solicit tears and laughter." -Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ms. "[Sanchez] looks deeply into that most dangerous of places--the heart." -Quarterly Black Review
