Homegirls and Handgrenades

by Sonia Sanchez

Overview

“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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935210795
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	07/14/2015
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, and scholar. She was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple Universityuntil her retirement and is one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement. She is the author of thirteen books.

Table of Contents

THE POWER OF LOVE

Poem No. 10
Welcome Home, My Prince
After the Fifth Day
Haiku
Story
Haiku
“Just Don’t Never Give Up on Love”

BLUES IS BULLETS

Poem Written After Reading Wright’s “American Hunger”
Blues
Norma
Depression
Ballad
To All Brothers: From All Sisters
Poem No. 12
A Song
After Saturday Night Comes Sunday

BEYOND THE FALLOUT

Bluebirdbluebirdthrumywindow
Haiku
I Have Walked a Long Time
Kaleidoscope
On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa.
Masks
On Seeing a Pacifist Burn
Traveling on an Amtrak Train Could Humanize You

GRENADES ARE NOT FREE

Bubba
A Poem for Paul
From a Black Feminist Conference
Haiku
A Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele
Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament
A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King
MIAS

About the Author

What People are Saying About This

Margaret Walker

This book is another expression of the continuing creativity of Sonia Sanchez. Some pieces are plaintive and poignant, others are tough and militant, but all are significant, brilliant and original. Here again is another example of Black speech, a vernacular familiar to all who know and love this author's previous work.

Editorial Reviews

Sonia Sanchez’s poetry is a must for all readers. Period.”
—Essence

“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 . . . . She has not given up the struggle to let her poetry be what she refers to as a ‘call to arms’ for her people.”
—Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ms.

“Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.”
—Isabel Allende

“Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly. . . . This world is a better place because of Sonia Sanchez: move livable, more laughable, more manageable. I wish millions of people knew that some of the joy in their lives comes from the fact that Sonia Sanchez is writing poetry.”
—Maya Angelou

“Her songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; her praise songs thunder and revitalize. We need these songs for our journey together into the next century.”
—Joy Harjo

From the Publisher