It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs

by Sonia Sanchez

1973 RARE First Edition, Second Printing "IT'S A NEW DAY. POEMS FOR YOUNG BROTHAS AND SISTUHS". Paperback. by Sonia Sanchez. Colored Cover. First Edition, Second Printing by Sonya Sanchez.

Genres: Poetry

29 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

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.

Reviews

[Muhammad · Rating 5 out of 5]

we are a new people
look at us walk. we walken
A New Walk. Its beat is the sound of Elijah
hurryen us to new frontiers.
we be a new people in a new land.

we wear a new look
look at the style we wear. our clothes
demand your look. respect. for they tell
the land that a new people's garments
flow on the earth.
we be a new people in a new land.

our talk is new. it be
original talk always prefaced by
As-Salaam-alaikum (a greeting of peace)
for how else should we begin the day
save with peace for our people in a new land.
we be a new people in a new land.

we are a mixture of the old and new.
a new western man of ancient wisdom
openen the door of the world
while moven on a new land
in a new way.
we be a new people in a new land.

Amen Sister Sanchez, and wa-alaikum-salaam!