Homegirls & Handgrenades

By Sonia Sanchez

Book Overview

A new edition of the 1985 winner of the American Book Award. Amiri Baraka called Sanchez 1698>>one of the important figures in Afro-American literature. In a style that is hers alone, Sanchez brings poetry and politics together into a book whose whole is far greater than the sum of its arts. Some of the poems are plaintive, others militant, but all are significant, brilliant and original.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938410237
• ISBN13: 9780938410232
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 5.5" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

an inspiring and heartfelt collection

When Sonia Sanchez talks, people tend to listen. I've seen it in person while taking a class with her at Naropa, and I feel it jumping off the page. She simply embodies charisma and power, personally and in her writing. Her formats range from near-short-story prose-poem pieces to haiku-like meditations that keep your hand from turning the page as you chew on her powerful images of hobos on trains, neighbors upstairs, and people playing handball against the side of a filling station. She inserts chants and machinegunfire descriptions that make expert use of open and projective verse, leaving the reader with a sense that poetry can, and will, take many forms to get one's point across effectively. Read this collection and walk away with a better understanding of how Sonia relates to the world.