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    Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

    Love Poems

    Part of Bluestreak

    Author Sonia Sanchez
    Paperback
    $18.00 US
    Beacon Press
    5.36"W x 8.02"H x 0.38"D   | 6 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Jan 01, 1999 | 144 Pages | 9780807068434
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    A dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. 

    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.
    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
    Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. She is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku. View titles by Sonia Sanchez

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    A dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. 

    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.

    Praise

    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

    Author

    Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. She is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku. View titles by Sonia Sanchez

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