Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems

by Sonia Sanchez, Deborah Chasman (Editor)

Overview

A dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. 

In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sonia Sanchez writes of the many forms love takes: burning, dreamy, disappointed, vulnerable. With words that revel and reveal, she shares love's painful beauty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807068434
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Series:	Bluestreak , #7
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.36(w) x 8.02(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Sonia Sanchez is poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. Her numerous honors include the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award. she is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Sonia Sanchez:

"Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature's forest." -Maya Angelou

"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." -Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ms.

"[Sanchez] looks deeply into that most dangerous of places—the heart." -Quarterly Black Review

From the Publisher

In all her words, Sanchez grabs your heart.
—Vibe

Julia Chance