Homegirls and Handgrenades

By Sonia Sanchez

Book Overview

"Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty."--Isabel Allende A reprint of Sonia Sanchez's award-winning collection, which contains some of her seminal work. Winner of the American Book Award. Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, and scholar and one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement. She is the author of sixteen books and lives in Philadelphia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935210793
• ISBN13: 9781935210795
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"

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.