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  <title><![CDATA[Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sonia Sanchez]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[this beautiful woman defintely changed my view on poetry and monologues. i learned a great deal from her honesty and the struggles that she shared.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 27 09:04:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[My hero, my spiritual mother. MS.SANCHEZ is the supreme keeper of language. This book is gorgeous - I covet her words. Want to fill my mouth with her poems and speak in her rhythms....]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 25 07:29:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[She's incredible!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My skin is loose...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 13 19:27:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 13 19:30:54 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh My Lord!  This woman is amazing, sensual, thoughtful and, well shit, a wonderful poet.  My copy is a little dog eared at this point - full of pencil underlines and comments in margines - Can't help but pull it out and re-read sections to qoute or other wise sooth myself. (love it!)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 29 22:12:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 02 23:33:42 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[my first encounter with ms. sanchez. wow. there's a prose piece - &quot;Dear Mama&quot; - in this book that had me - if i may borrow a line from jimi hendrix - &quot;crying tears in my soul.&quot; matter of fact i teared up a lot reading this book - tender voice with a lot to say. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 06 07:42:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 06 07:46:16 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I have just finished this wonderful set of poems, I will be re-reading and re-reading them.  They are my night time &quot;snack&quot; before I go to sleep, providing me with emotions to savor and thoughts to ponder.]]></body>
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    <review id="4881017">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 08 18:19:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't love this one.  It felt dated and not in a good way.  I did enjoy &quot;Blues&quot; as well as &quot;set No. 1&quot; from &quot;Wounded in the House of a Friend,&quot; but not enough to sway me towards likeing the rest of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a brilliant collection.  I love EVERYTHING this woman writes.  Great book for any poetry lover to have on the shelves!!!!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is where i first read some of my favorites of sonia's poems...before tracking back through older publications. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some good pieces in here. I like her old rebellious stuff more, but she still spits fire. :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sanchez is the poetry soul of her generation and this collection will help you understand why.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[phenomenal.  everyone should read sonia sanchez.  she changed the course of my life forever.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truly an amazing gifted writer.... please read this book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This woman gives me tingles.  I drink up every word she writes. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's Sonia...]]></body>
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