Juba: Poetry

By Letta Neely

The extraordinary language and love, the chorus of freedom and justice that defines this book locates Letta Neely firmly in the great and proud tradition of Black writers from Dunbar to Hughes to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966309723
• ISBN13: 9780966309720
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Wildheart Press
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Incredible!

Letta's poetry is phenomenal. She was the first poet I ever heard read her own poetry when I was young and over 12 years later she remains the best. The work is haunting and rich. Her poetry is the type to tell you stories in beautiful language. She's a black lesbian who has been deeply impacted by the violence and injustice in both of those communities and this permeates her work. And it's not all tragic--some is sexy, fun...