Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807095311
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Book Description
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.

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807095311
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Book Description
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.

Shake Loose My Skin

Shake Loose My Skin PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807068896
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Book Description
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.

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822393050
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. In addition to The Bronx Is Next (1968), Sister Son/ji (1969), Dirty Hearts (1971), Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1972), and Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974), this collection includes the never-before-published dramas I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982) and 2 X 2 (2009), as well as three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism. Jacqueline Wood’s introduction illuminates Sanchez’s stagecraft in relation to her poetry and advocacy for social change, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.

Homegirls & Handgrenades

Homegirls & Handgrenades PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560251439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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A collection of poems focusing on the Black experience

Collected Poems

Collected Poems PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807026522
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Book Description
Winner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez’s poetry, this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work, including poems from her first volume, Homecoming (1969), through to 2019, the poet has collected her favorite work in all forms of verse, from Haiku to excerpts from book-length narratives. Her lifelong dedication to the causes of Black liberation, social equality, and women’s rights is evident throughout, as is her special attention to youth in poems addressed to children and young adults. As Maya Angelou so aptly put it: “Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”

Morning Haiku

Morning Haiku PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807069116
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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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 Brother Damu, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network. Often arranged in strings of twelve or more, the haiku flow one into the other in a steady song of commemoration. Sometimes deceptively simple, her lyrics hold a very powerful load of emotion and meaning. There are intimate verses here for family and friends, verses of profound loss and silence, of courage and resilience. Sanchez is innovative, composing haiku in new forms, including a section of moving two-line poems that reflect on the long wake of 9/11. In a brief and personal opening essay, the poet explains her deep appreciation for haiku as an art form. With its touching portraits and by turns uplifting and heartbreaking lyrics, Morning Haiku contains some of Sanchez's freshest, most poignant work.

Under a Soprano Sky

Under a Soprano Sky PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN: 9780865430532
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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Book Description
'She has formed a blue/black sound and transmitted it to the 'people' to make us free. It is impossible to hear this sound and not recognize its authenticity...' --Houston Baker

4-Way Coordination

4-Way Coordination PDF Author: Marvin Dahlgren
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457466406
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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Book Description
Proficiency as a drummer has always come from great hand dexterity. However, with the introduction of modern drumming techniques, it has become increasingly necessary to gain complete independence of both the hands and feet. With various rhythmic exercises in easy-to-read notation, 4-Way Coordination is designed to guide the drummer from simple patterns to advanced polyrhythms. Through the study of this method book, the student will gain invaluable listening skills and techniques that will provide insight to drumming in all styles.

I've Been a Woman

I've Been a Woman PDF Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women authors
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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"This new collection of poems ... presents still another stage in the growth and development of Sonia Sanchez, who emerges from its pages as a dynamic, a transcendant female voice, and one of the finest poets of our time."--on lower cover.

Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum

Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum PDF Author: Ashley Bryan
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808592242
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Five traditional Nigerian tales include Hen And Frog, Why Bush Cow And Elephant Are Bad Friends, The Husband Who Counted The Spoonfuls, Why Frog And Snake Never Play Together, and How Animals Got Their Tails.