Hand Dance

by Wanda Coleman

Book Overview

Her father's fatal illness. The inner life of an urban charity hospital. "Unfinished Ghost Stories." "American Sonnets." "Dreams." This is vintage Wanda Coleman, the poet of the people.

Coleman wrote as a witness. She captured her world and its truths, of life with the constants of race, fear, poverty, gender, inequality, oppression. Through it all, there is passionate love and sexuality, humor and drama -- her work is full of startling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876858965
• ISBN13: 9780876858967
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"