false 216573 3 1 380188 0807068535 9780807068533 16 <![CDATA[Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323692m/380188.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323692s/380188.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380188.Shake_Loose_My_Skin_New_and_Selected_Poems 4.33 120 216573 4.40 449 48 1999 380189 0807068438 9780807068434 6 <![CDATA[Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums (Bluestreak Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323693m/380189.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323693s/380189.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380189.Like_the_Singing_Coming_Off_the_Drums 4.37 68 Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums is passion. There's enough erotic exuberance in these poems to make even Cupid blush, starting with the opening salvo: "you held me so close / we were like the singing coming off drums. / you made me squeeze muscles / lean back on the sound / of corpuscles sliding in blood. I heard my thighs singing." The intensity of Sanchez's love poetry can leave us breathless. Yet she is very much the public poet as well as the private one. Her collection includes tributes to such icons as Ella Fitzgerald, Tupac Amaru Shakur, Toni Cade Bambara, Cornel West, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Sanchez also produces a portrait of an HIV-positive woman, which builds to an affirmative crescendo:
...I ammmmmmmm
the universe knows that
I ammmmmmm
hiv positive but I ammm
still. woman. lover. mother.
sistah. artist. organizer. activist.
woman...
At her best, Sanchez bridges gender, age and race, speaking in the closest we can expect to a universal language. We read the poems in Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums and know exactly what she means. --Martha Silano]]> 216573 4.40 449 48 1998 380192 0807068314 9780807068311 7 <![CDATA[Does Your House Have Lions ?]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323694m/380192.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323694s/380192.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380192.Does_Your_House_Have_Lions_ 4.34 67 216573 4.40 449 48 1998 380191 1893996808 9781893996809 2 <![CDATA[Homegirls and Handgrenades]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323694m/380191.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323694s/380191.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380191.Homegirls_and_Handgrenades 4.57 61 "Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty."-Isabel Allende

A reprint of Sonia Sanchez's award-winning collection, which contains some of her seminal work. Winner of the American Book Award.

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, and scholar and one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement. She is the author of sixteen books and lives in Philadelphia.

]]> 216573 4.40 449 48 1984 380187 0807068276 9780807068274 5 <![CDATA[Wounded in the House of a Friend]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323692m/380187.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323692s/380187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380187.Wounded_in_the_House_of_a_Friend 4.32 41 216573 4.40 449 48 1995 380193 0883781123 9780883781128 2 <![CDATA[I'Ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323695m/380193.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174323695s/380193.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380193.I_Ve_Been_a_Woman_New_and_Selected_Poems 4.41 22 I've Been A Woman is the dynamic transcendental female voice of one of the finest poets of our time. Includes "Black Magic: Blk Rhetoric" and "Blues."</DIV>]]> 216573 4.40 449 48 1979 840626 0865430535 9780865430532 2 <![CDATA[Under a Soprano Sky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840626.Under_a_Soprano_Sky 4.59 17 216573 4.40 449 48 1987 727394 0910296278 9780910296274 2 <![CDATA[We a Baddddd People.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/727394.We_a_Baddddd_People_ 4.82 11 216573 4.40 449 48 1982 652815 0910296057 9780910296052 2 <![CDATA[Home Coming]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/652815.Home_Coming 4.56 9 216573 4.40 449 48 1969 727393 089388104X 9780893881047 0 <![CDATA[Love Poems]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/727393.Love_Poems 4.67 6 216573 4.40 449 48 1975