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  • Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)

    An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068535
    • UPC: 046442068536
    • ASIN: 0807068535
    • ISBN: 0807068535
    • Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)


    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068438
    • UPC: 046442068437
    • ASIN: 0807068438
    • ISBN: 9780807068434
    • Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Morning Haiku

    Poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.  Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach "exploding in the universe," the "blue hallelujahs" of the Philadelphia Murals, and the voice of Odetta "thundering out of the earth." Sanchez sings the praises of contemporaries whose poetic alchemy turns "words into gems": Maya Angelou, Richard Long, and Toni Morrison. And she pays homage to peace workers and civil rights activists from Rosa Parks and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Brot... [Read More]
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807001317
    • ASIN: 0807001317
    • ISBN: 0807001317
    • Brand: Brand: Beacon Press
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Does Your House Have Lions ?

    From the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner, this is an epic poem on kin estranged, the death of a brother from AIDS, and the possibility of reconciliation and love in the face of loss.
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068314
    • UPC: 046442068314
    • ASIN: 0807068314
    • ISBN: 0807068314
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid

    From one of America’s most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday life and the bonds we share with those closest to us.“This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet’s power and her command of language . . . Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book and the continuing publication of America’s treasured poet.”—San Francisco Book ReviewThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and t... [Read More]
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: B00D185EYA
    • ASIN: B00D185EYA
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers

    In this intergenerational collection of poetry by new and established African American writers, fatherhood is celebrated with honor, humor, and grace. Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma all contribute. Javaka Steptoe, who also offers a poem, employs an inventive range of media to bring each of the poems to life. In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall testifies to the powerful bond between father and child, recognizing family as our greatest gift, and identifying fathers as being among our most influential heroes.
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 1584300167
    • ASIN: 1584300167
    • ISBN: 1584300167
    • Brand: Lee & Low Books
    • Manufacturer: Lee & Low Books

  • Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam

    Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming together to create a dialogue and to jam–not slam. This is our mouth on paper, our hearts on our sleeves, our refusal to shut up and swallow our silence. These poems are tough, honest, astute, perceptive, lyrical, blunt, sad, funny, heartbreaking, and true. They shout, they curse, they whisper, and sing. But most of all, they tell it like it is.” –Tony Medina, from the Introduction
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0609808400
    • ASIN: 0609808400
    • ISBN: 0609808400
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

  • The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Ser.)

    The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to―the South.Voices new to the scene appear in The Ringing Ear alongside some of the leading names in American literature today, including Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Harryette Mullen, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, and Al Young. The southern worlds opened up by these poets are echoed in how their poems are grouped, under headings like "Music, Food, and Work: Heeding the Lamentation and Roar of Things Made by Hand," ... [Read More]
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0820329266
    • UPC: 884900335321
    • ASIN: 0820329266
    • ISBN: 0820329266
    • Brand: University of Georgia Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press

  • Wounded in the House of a Friend (Bluestreak)

    An exploration of the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez writes of an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape, the murder of a woman by her granddaughter, the ravages of drugs. Sanchez transforms the unspoken and sometimes violent betrayals of our lives into a liberating vision of connection in emotional redemption, compassion, and self-fulfillment.
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 0807068276
    • UPC: 046442068277
    • ASIN: 0807068276
    • ISBN: 0807068276
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Conversations with Sonia Sanchez (Literary Conversations)

    Conversations with Sonia Sanchez is a diverse collection of engagements with poet, teacher, and activist Sonia Sanchez. While it is common to associate Sanchez with the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, these interviews reveal that Sanchez is a poet whose craft and subjects have evolved over three decades. The interviews from 1979 to 2005 include a previously unpublished interview conducted by the editor specifically for this book. Taken together, the pieces illuminate Sanchez's conscious and consistent work at honing her craft, her skill at raising the highly political to the level of art, and her engagement with black studies and women's studies. In these interviews, we see how her travels, her career as a teacher, and her work as a mother, as a political activist, and as a cultural crit... [Read More]
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems

    • ASIN: 1578069513
    • ASIN: 1578069513
    • ISBN: 1578069513
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi

  • Best Loved Poems of American People

    Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems
    More than 1,500,000 copies in print! Over 575  traditional favorites to be read and reread.  Categorized by theme, and indexed by author and first  line, this is a collection that will be

    • UPC: 461703
    • Rating: 4.667

  • 100 Best Poems for Children

    Books : 100 Best Poems for Children (Puffin Poetry) (Paperback)
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems
    A collection of contemporary and classic poems chosen by children from schools around the UK.

    • UPC: 772242114
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The 100 Best Poems of All Time

    An anthology of poetry from around the world includes works by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Poe, both Brownings, Dickinson, Eliot, Neruda, Plath, and Angelou, as well as poems and songs that have entered popular
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems
    This poetry companion puts favourite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips, enabling you to revisit the classics, encounter unfamiliar masterworks and rediscover old

    • UPC: 1071285
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's favorite poems are collected here, selected by her daughter, including the work of Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Homer, Yeats, and Emily Dickinson, among others. 250,000 first
    Sonia Sanchez Best Poems
    Timed to the publication of the author's new illustrated children's book, A Family of Poems, the national bestseller is now available in a specially priced gift edition Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the worlds behind her strong belief in the power of literature. A wonderful volume for reading aloud or by yourself, a meaningful gift or

    • UPC: 43151806
    • Rating: 4.25

  • Review: Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez - eBook

    Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: H1, University of Melbourne, course: Poetry, language: English, abstract: Sonia Sanchez is best known for her strong stance on race and gender; this is the heart of her poetry. Sanchez explores her identity as an African American woman through a separatist lens. Influenced by the movement of Malcolm X, she focuses on what sets her race apart and embraces that. Her poetry proudly establishes black identity through an assessment of its present, past, and future state. This is what probably struck me about
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    Review: Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez - eBook

    • UPC: 976372496

  • Def Poetry - Sonia Sanchez - Poem for Some Women

    Sonia Sanchez on Season 1 Episode 2 of Def Poetry Jam
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    350. Sonia Sanchez - "Our Vision Is Our Voice"


    Sonia Sanchez "Put on the sleeves of love."

    Poet/Activist Sonia Sanchez takes a moment away from the Unitarian Universalist Association's Ministry Days to speak about what standing on the side of love means to her.
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