Sonia Sanchez Best Poems - April 2024

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.

• ASIN: 0807068535
• UPC: 046442068536
• ASIN: 0807068535
• ISBN: 0807068535
• Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)

• ASIN: 0807068438
• UPC: 046442068437
• ASIN: 0807068438
• ISBN: 9780807068434
• Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Morning Haiku

Poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.  Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach "exploding in the universe," the "blue hallelujahs" of the Philadelphia Murals, and the voice of Odetta "thundering out of the earth." Sanchez sings the praises of contemporaries whose poetic al... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807001317
• ASIN: 0807001317
• ISBN: 0807001317
• Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Does Your House Have Lions ?

From the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner, this is an epic poem on kin estranged, the death of a brother from AIDS, and the possibility of reconciliation and love in the face of loss.

• ASIN: 0807068314
• UPC: 046442068314
• ASIN: 0807068314
• ISBN: 0807068314
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid

From one of America’s most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday life and the bonds we share with those closest to us.“This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet’s power and her command of language . . . Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book and the continuing publication of America’s treasured poet.”—San Francisco Book ReviewThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements and inspired songs... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00D185EYA
• ASIN: B00D185EYA
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers

In this intergenerational collection of poetry by new and established African American writers, fatherhood is celebrated with honor, humor, and grace. Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma all contribute. Javaka Steptoe, who also offers a poem, employs an inventive range of media to bring each of the poems to life. In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall testifies to the powerful bond between father and child, recognizing family as our greatest gift, and i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1584300167
• ASIN: 1584300167
• ISBN: 1584300167
• Brand: Lee & Low Books
• Manufacturer: Lee & Low Books

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam

Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming together to create a dialogue and to jam–not slam. This is our mouth on paper, our hearts on our sleeves, our refusal to shut up and swallow our silence. These poems are tough, honest, astute, perceptive, lyrical, blunt, sad, funny, heartbreaking, and true. They shout, they curse, they whisper, and sing. But ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0609808400
• ASIN: 0609808400
• ISBN: 0609808400
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Ser.)

The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to―the South.Voices new to the scene appear in The Ringing Ear alongside some of the leading names in American literature today, including Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Harryette Mullen, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0820329266
• UPC: 884900335321
• ASIN: 0820329266
• ISBN: 0820329266
• Brand: University of Georgia Press
• Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press

Wounded in the House of a Friend (Bluestreak)

An exploration of the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez writes of an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape, the murder of a woman by her granddaughter, the ravages of drugs. Sanchez transforms the unspoken and sometimes violent betrayals of our lives into a liberating vision of connection in emotional redemption, compassion, and self-fulfillment.

• ASIN: 0807068276
• UPC: 046442068277
• ASIN: 0807068276
• ISBN: 0807068276
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez (Literary Conversations)

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez is a diverse collection of engagements with poet, teacher, and activist Sonia Sanchez. While it is common to associate Sanchez with the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, these interviews reveal that Sanchez is a poet whose craft and subjects have evolved over three decades. The interviews from 1979 to 2005 include a previously unpublished interview conducted by the editor specifically for this book. Taken together, the pieces illuminate Sanchez's conscious and consistent work at honing her craft, her skill at raising the highly political to the level of art, an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1578069513
• ASIN: 1578069513
• ISBN: 1578069513
• Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi

F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature

Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau’s intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem’s renaissance and Hoover’s career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African Ameri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0691130205
• ASIN: 0691130205
• ISBN: 0691130205
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

Best Loved Poems of American People

Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and

• UPC: 461703
• Rating: 4.667

100 Best Poems for Children

Books : 100 Best Poems for Children (Puffin Poetry)

• UPC: 772242114
• Rating: 5.0

The 100 Best Poems of All Time

An anthology of poetry from around the world includes works by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Poe, both Brownings, Dickinson, Eliot, Neruda, Plath, and Angelou, as well as poems and songs that have entered popular

• UPC: 1071285
• Rating: 4.0

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's favorite poems are collected here, selected by her daughter, including the work of Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Homer, Yeats, and Emily Dickinson, among others. 250,000 first

• UPC: 43151806
• Rating: 4.25

Review: Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez - eBook

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: H1, University of Melbourne, course: Poetry, language: English, abstract: Sonia Sanchez is best known for her strong stance

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The Best Poems of the English Language : From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

The great critic presents his personal selection, with commentary, of the finest poems in the English

• UPC: 5330962
• Rating: 4.0

A Million Brilliant Poems: Pt. 1: A Collection of the Very Best Children's Poetry Today (Paperback)

Roger Stevens has selected the very best children's poetry published over the last 15 years in one fabulous book. Funny poems, sad poems, and poems to learn by heart and many many more from today's

• UPC: 996461795

Best Korean Poems Collection : Anthology of Korean Poetry

Meet the very finest of Korean poetry. This compilation of best Korean poems bring you the essence of Korean zeitgeist of the time, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced

• UPC: 688089037

Best Remembered Poems - eBook

The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat"

• UPC: 688015887

Best Remembered Poems

The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets. Includes 10 selections from

• UPC: 34682218
• Rating: 4.0