The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well Chinua AchebeOnly a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty Isabel AllendeA lion in literatures forest Maya AngelouA dazzling selection of poems from one of the most beloved American poets, whose distinctive verse resonates around the globeFew poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and abundant positivity that characterise Sonia Sanchezs astonishing body of work.Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchezs poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world. Whether its her iconic haiku, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchezs lyric, luminous and lovely as chandeliers, thrums with a profound generosity and an international consciousness, rendering all of lifes agony and ecstasy. This volume pulls from across Sanchezs diverse repertoire to showcase the multiplicities of the poets voice the profound and personal, the firebrand and socially conscious, the playful and formally dextrous, and the musical to celebrate her as one of the worlds most skilled and versatile poets of the past half century.

Binding: Paperback;176 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: DC; Weight: 244 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 11

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