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Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums - (Bluestreak) by Sonia Sanchez (Paperback)

Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums - (Bluestreak) by  Sonia Sanchez (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A collection of sensual love poems from one of the most prominent African-American poets and a leader of the Black Arts Movement.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner. </b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Praise for Sonia Sanchez: <p/>Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature's forest. -Maya Angelou <p/>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, <i>Ms.</i> <p/>[Sanchez] looks deeply into that most dangerous of places--the heart. <i>-Quarterly Black Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sonia Sanchez</b> is 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. Her numerous honors include the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award. she is the author of sixteen books, including <i>Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?</i>, <i>Wounded in the House of a Friend</i>, <i>Shake Loose My Skin</i>, and <i>Morning Haiku.</i>

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