Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Love Poems
$28.94
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums is a dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from one of our master poets. In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sonia Sanchez writes of the many forms love takes- burning, dreamy, disappointed, vulnerable. With words that revel and reveal, she shares love’s painful beauty.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807068434 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807068438 |
| Author: | Sonia Sanchez |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 136mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Bluestreak |
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Critics Review
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
About The Author
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez-award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell professor of English and women’s studies at Temple University-is the author of sixteen books, includingLike the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend,andShake Loose My Skin.
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