Under a Soprano Sky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanchez, Sonia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Trenton : Africa World Press, 1987.

Summary:

This latest collection of new and selected poems by Sonia Sanchez suggests feminist concerns around which these poems revolve. The many haiku, narrative, and elegies in these poems contain Sanchez's own brand of Afro-American lyricism, and range in tone from anger, to cynicism, to reverence. The subjects range from autobiography to social commentary, from motherhood to South Africa. All the poems reflect Sanchez's concern with expanding contours of the English language to facilitate her self-expression as a black woman. The collection also reflects her interest in the words and images of Third World artists. She incorporates Bob Marley, Pablo Neruda, and Nicholas Guillen into her own world view by using excerpts from their poems as epigraphs to five sections of this collection. ISBN 0-86543-053-5 (pbk.):

Contents:

Beginnings

Section One

Section Two

Section Three

Section Four

Section Five

Endings.