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Informationen zum Autor Poet, playwright, educator, and activist Sonia Sanchez is the author of seventeen books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, Under a Soprano Sky, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Does Your House Have Lions? Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums, Shake Loose My Skin and most recently, Collected Poems. Among hundreds of honors she has received are the Langston Hughes Poetry Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. Homegirls & Handgrenades won the 1985 American Book award, and Does Your House Have Lions? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sonia Sanchez has taught and lectured at over 500 universities and colleges in the United States and has traveled extensively, reading her poetry in Africa, Australia, Cuba, England, the Caribbean, Norway, Canada, and the People’s Republic of China. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English until her retirement in 1999. Klappentext Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature's forest.-Maya Angelou Zusammenfassung Winner of the American Book Award A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition “A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”—Maya Angelou Originally published in 1984, this collection of prose, prose poems, and lyric verses is as fresh and radical today as it was then. Sonia Sanchez, the premiere poet of the Black Arts Movement, shows the “razor blades” in clenched in her teeth in these powerful pieces. Inhaltsverzeichnis THE POWER OF LOVE Poem No. 10 Welcome Home, My Prince After the Fifth Day Haiku Story Haiku “Just Don’t Never Give Up on Love” BLUES IS BULLETS Poem Written After Reading Wright’s “American Hunger” Blues Norma Depression Ballad To All Brothers: From All Sisters Poem No. 12 A Song After Saturday Night Comes Sunday BEYOND THE FALLOUT Bluebirdbluebirdthrumywindow Haiku I Have Walked a Long Time Kaleidoscope On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa. Masks On Seeing a Pacifist Burn Traveling on an Amtrak Train Could Humanize You GRENADES ARE NOT FREE Bubba A Poem for Paul From a Black Feminist Conference Haiku A Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King MIAS About the Author...
