About this item
Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez's poetry,this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work,including poems from her first volume, Homecoming (1969) , through to 2019, the poet has collected her favorite work in all forms of verse,from Haiku to excerpts from book-length narratives. Her lifelong dedication to the causes of Black liberation,social equality,and women's rights is evident throughout,as is her special attention to youth in poems addressed to children and young adults. As Maya Angelou so aptly put it: "Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature's forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly."
About the Author
Sonia Sanchez--poet, activist, scholar--was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sanchez is the author of sixteen books.
