The Love Project - A Marriage Made in Poetry

Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus's tell-all paean to a marriage that crisscrosses the racial and cultural Maginot Lines of American society.

About the author

Wanda Coleman was the author of the poetry collections Bathwater Wine, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Mercurochrome, a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as many other books of poetry, fiction, and essays. She won an Emmy Award as a writer for Days of Our Lives. A Los Angeles native, she lived there for many years with her husband, Austin Straus. She died in November, 2013.

A poet and painter, Austin Straus is the author of the collections Drunk with Light and Intensifications, for which he also did the cover art. Born in Brooklyn, he has lived for many years in Los Angeles, many of them with his late wife, Wanda Coleman.

Summary

Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus's tell-all paean to a marriage that crisscrosses the racial and cultural Maginot Lines of American society.

Product details

• Authors: Wanda Coleman, Austin Straus
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2014
• EAN: 9781597097338
• ISBN: 978-1-59709-733-8
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama