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Like the Singing Coming off the Drums by Sonia Sanchez

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

Love Poems

Love Poems

By Sonia Sanchez

By Sonia Sanchez

By Sonia Sanchez

By Sonia Sanchez

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Category: Poetry

Category: Poetry

Paperback $16.00

Jan 01, 1999 | ISBN 9780807068434

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Mar 06, 2012 | ISBN 9780807095317

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    About Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

    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.

    About Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

    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.

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    Morning Haiku
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    About Sonia Sanchez

    Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. She is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming… More about Sonia Sanchez

    About Sonia Sanchez

    Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. She is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming… More about Sonia Sanchez

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Beacon Press
    Jan 01, 1999 | 144 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780807068434

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Beacon Press
    Mar 06, 2012 | 144 Pages | ISBN 9780807095317

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    Praise

    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

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