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I'Ve Been a Woman

Name: I'Ve Been a Woman
Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
ISBN: 9780933296008

Sonia Sanchez

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I've Been a Woman presents a collection of poems, including Black Magic: Black Rhetoric and Blues.

GenresPoetryGenderFeminism

101 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. After her mother died in childbirth a year later, Sanchez lived with her paternal grandmother and other relatives for several years. In 1943, she moved to Harlem with her sister to live with their father and his third wife.

She earned a B.A. in political science from Hunter College in 1955. She also did postgraduate work at New York University and studied poetry with Louise Bogan. Sanchez formed a writers' workshop in Greenwich Village, attended by such poets as Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), and Larry Neal. Along with Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, and Etheridge Knight, she formed the "Broadside Quartet" of young poets, introduced and promoted by Dudley Randall.

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Poupina

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May 4, 2014

"how sad it must be
to love so many women
to need so many black
perfumed bodies weeping
underneath you...

when i remember your deformity
i want to do something about your
makeshift manhood."

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Nour

148 reviews29 followers

June 27, 2016

Phenomenal. I could not put this down. What an incredible collection of poetry. Sonia Sanchez transcends with her poetry on womanhood, love, power and growth.