Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems

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Product Details

Price
$24.00
Publisher
37 Ink
Publish Date
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.7 X 8.4 X 0.9 inches | 0.79 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781501169939

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About the Author

Ntozake Shange, poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, wrote the Broadway-produced and Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She has also written numerous works of fiction, including Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, Betsy Brown, and Liliane.

Reviews

"These powerfully swinging, jabbing, lamenting, testifying, and protesting poems. . . coalesce in a galvanizing, timely, and timeless flow of creativity, valor, compassion, and wisdom."--Donna Seaman "Booklist Review "
"Acclaimed poet, playwright, and novelist Shange, takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood in her first selected volume.The poems showcase vibrant narratives of black women who are neither solely saints nor sinners."

--Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
"Shange returns with powerful new poems... drawn from the daily realities of black life. No poet since Langston Hughes has insisted so forcefully on black people's right to simply be..."--Washington Post
"Vibrant enough to leave a mark. . . . Shange parses the beauty in cultural variation, music, womanhood, urban life and language."--New York magazine
"A revelation . . Shange is as fearless as ever in poems that reveal our humanity and pain."
-- Essence