Homegirls & Handgrenades

by Sonia Sanchez

Book Overview

Winner of the American Book Award

A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition

"A lion in literature's forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly."--Maya Angelou

Originally published in 1984, this collection of prose, prose poems, and lyric verses is as fresh and radical today as it was then. Sonia Sanchez, the premiere poet of the Black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807012955
• ISBN13: 9780807012956
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.8"

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.