Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sonia Sanchez
SeriesBluestreak
Series part Volume No. 7
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 137
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780807068434
ClassificationsDewey:811.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Beacon Press
Imprint Beacon Press
Publication Date 1 January 1999
Publication Country United States

Description

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums is a dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from one of our master poets. 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.

Author Biography

Sonia Sanchez-award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell professor of English and women's studies at Temple University-is the author of sixteen books, includingLike the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend,andShake Loose My Skin.

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