“A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”— Maya Angelou
Originally published in 1984, this collection of prose, prose poems and lyric verses is as fresh and radical today as it was then. Sonia Sanchez, the premiere poet of the Black Arts Movement, shows the “razor blades” in clenched in her teeth in these powerful pieces.
Contents
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
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
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