Sonia N Sanchez

Wounded in the House of a Friend

Does Your House Have Lions?

Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems

Shake Loose My Skin

Wounded in the House of a Friend

Does Your House Have Lions?

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Under a Soprano Sky

Morning Haiku

From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement, poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages A collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism.

Does Your House Have Lions ?

Nominated for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryRecommended Reading from EmergeAn epic poem on kin estranged, the death of a brother from AIDS, and the possibility of reconciliation and love in the face of loss.

I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems

The author of several books of poetry, Sanchez'I've Been A Womanis the dynamic transcendental female voice of one of the finest poets of our time. Includes ""Black Magic: Blk Rhetoric"" and ""Blues.""

Homegirls and Handgrenades

“Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.”—Isabel AllendeA 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 impor...

SOS_Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader

This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in the form of artists' circles, writers' w...

Wounded in the House of A Friend (Bluestreak)

Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez explores the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives: an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape, the murder of a woman by her granddaughter, the ravages of drugs. Sanchez transforms the unspoken and sometimes violent betrayals of our live...

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays

Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young f...

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)

Like the Singing Coming off the Drums is a dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from one of our master poets. In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sonia Sanchez writes of the many forms love takes: burning, dreamy, disappointed, vulnerable. With words that revel and r...

Sia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver, September 9, 1934) is an African- American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has...