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Wanda Coleman
A selection of poems by the great american poetess Wanda Coleman, with calligraphy and layout by Jean-Jacques Tachdjian
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Past winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, this long-time author from Black Sparrow Press is known for her fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one…
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In The World Falls Away, Wanda Coleman’s poems glow with an almost radioactive edginess. Yet, there is also range and substance giving her intense American voice staying power. To use…
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Wanda Coleman is best known for what has often been termed her ‘warrior voice’ … Coleman’s poet’s voice too can weep elegiac, summoning memories of her childhood’s neighborhoods - her…
Coleman is one of the decade’s most moral poets, showing us in feverishly focused first- and third-person dramatic monologues the grim life of L.A.‘s streets. It’s impossible to paraphrase her…
This is the sixth book by Los Angeles poet and short story writer Coleman.
Wanda Coleman has drawn on 30 years of articles, essays, interviews and columns to create this personal narrative. Wanda grew up black and poor in South Central Los Angeles -…
This volume presents a collection of Wanda Coleman’s poetry. The author converts painful memories of adolescence into incandescent poetry of social protest and personal affirmation.
A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles who lived every day with racism, poverty, violence. The triumph is in words that endure. Having Lost My Son, I Confront the Wreckage…
Satire and journalism are alive and well in L.A., at least when Wanda Coleman is doing the biting and the reporting. -Publishers Weekly
The Riot Inside Me once again finds…
The lives of the urban desperate in their unending struggle to keep afloat in an always dangerous environment circumscribed by racism and poverty. Extraordinary stories, told in a powerful voice…
Wanda Coleman’s novel traces the friendship of two women, one white, one black, one from the suburbs, one from the ghetto, but both aspiring writers, who for two decades share…
The time has never been better for this re-introduction of Wanda Coleman’s work to a new audience of readers.
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Wanda Coleman,Austin Straus
Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus’s tell-all paean to a marriage that crisscrosses the racial and cultural Maginot Lines of American society.
Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus s tell-all paean to a marriage that crisscrosses the racial and cultural Maginot Lines of American society.
Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging…potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit. -Washington Post
Terrifying and fearlessly inventive. -New York Times
The first complete collection of Wanda Coleman’s…
Paul E Nelson
Interviews from 1994 to 2012, with poets, activists, indigenous people and whole systems luminaries, conducted by Seattle poet and interviewer Paul E Nelson, Founding Director of the Seattle Poetics LAB…
Painting on canvases, cereal boxes and cigarette packs, Taylor creates a grand pageant of contemporary Black life in America
Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, sculpture and…
Can serious poetry be funny? This title features poems that address timeless concerns and also include comic elements. It features poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery as well…
Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to…
