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Author:   Sonia Sanchez
Publisher:   Beacon Press
Imprint:   Beacon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.147kg
ISBN:  

9780807024492

ISBN 10:   080702449
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   03 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Under a Soprano Sky Fragment 1 Fragment 2 This Is Not a Small Voice Story Sequences City Songs Poem Written After Reading Wright’s ‘American Hunger’ At the Gallery of La Casa de Las Americas, Habana. Dec. 1984 A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald Poem No. 10 Ballad Poem No. 7 Fall Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 When we come From a Black Feminist Conference Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet to CHucK a ballad for stirling street (to be sung) personal letter no. 3 a poem for my father insomnia A Poem for Paul Past Why / Poem No. 1 July Father and Daughter (I) poem at thirty Depression (section 1) Does Your House Have Lions? On Seeing a Pacifist Burn malcolm An Anthem in the courtroom MIAS A Love Song for Spelman Father and Daughter (II) haikuography Haiku / After the fifth day Haiku / Haiku 10 haiku 15 haiku 9 haiku 6 haiku Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman personal letter no. 2 Acknowledgments

Reviews

“You have spoken for us . . . Written for us . . . Sung to us . . . How much in your debt we are.” —Toni Morrison “The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power. . . . It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly.” —Chinua Achebe “Her commanding oeuvre continues to elevate language’s ability to give voice to entire communities (their daily pleasures and pains) inside our shared and troubled history.” —Claudia Rankine “Her songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; her praise songs thunder and revitalize. We need these songs for our journey together into the next century.” —Joy Harjo

Author Information

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, playwright, educator, activist, and one of the founders of the Black Arts movement. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Does Your House Have Lions?, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Homegirls & Handgrenades, which won an American Book Award. She has also received many other awards including the Robert Creeley Award, the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Philadelphia.

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