Collected poems / Sonia Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American poets.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

403 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning four decades of her literary career"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. from Home Coming: homecoming

poem at thirty

nigger

black magic

summary

malcolm

small comment

the final solution/to CHucK

poem for dcs 8th graders

1966-67

definition for blk/children

Memorial [1. The supremes

cuz they dead . . . ]

Memorial [2. bobby hutton . . . ]

personal letter no. 2

2. from We a BaddDDD People: SURVIVAL POEMS. a poem for my father

blk / rhetoric

personal letter no. 3

television / poem

right on: wite america 1

right on: wite america 2

right on: wite america 3

right on: wite america 4

in the courtroom

summer words of a sistuh addicton watching a world series game

LOVE/SONG/CHANTS. 10:15 am

April 27, 1969 poem

last poem i'm gonna write bout us

for our lady

TCB/EN POEMS. "To Fanon, culture meant only one thing . . ."

why i don't get high on shit

sunday / evening at gwen's

a poem for nina simone to put some music to and blow our nigguh

minds: a ballad for stirling street (to be sung) For Amina and Amira Barakanow poem. for us.

3. from Love Poems: Why

Poem No. 1

July

Father and Daughter

Haiku from a husband

Poem No. 3

Poem No. 4

Magic

Words

Haiku [we grow up my love . . . ]

After the fifth day

Haiku [Was it yesterday . . . ]

Haiku [O i am so sad, i . . . ]

Prelude to Nothing

Blues

Kaleidoscope

Haiku [o i was wide and . . . ]

Ballad (after the spanish)

Poem No. 7

Sequences

Old Words

Haiku [if i had known, if . . . ]

To You/Who Almost Turned/Me On

Formula

Haiku [there are things sadder . . . ]

Poem No. 8

Poem No. 10

Welcome home. my prince

Haiku [your love was a port . . . ]

Haiku [i could love you Black . . . ]

I Have Walked a Long Time

Hey There

A Blk/Woman/Speaks

Poem No. 12

Haiku (written from Peking)

Depression

Listening to Jimmy Garrison

Haiku [in your wet season . . . ]

Haiku [O this day like an . . . ]

Poem No. 15

4. from A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women

PAST. [COME into Black geography . . . ]

1. woman

2. earth mother

3. young/black/girl

4. young womanhood

5. womanhood

PRESENT. 1 [THIS woman vomiting her . . . ]

REBIRTH.

[WHEN i stepped off the plane i knew i was home . . . ]

5. from It's a New Day poems for young brothas and sistahs

For Morani/Mungu/Meusi

Words for Kali and Poochie

Words for Geoffrey and Stephanie Hamilton

City Songs

to P. J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)

When we come

We Can Be

6. from I've Been a Woman

(Haikus / Tankas & Other Love Syllables)

7. from Under a Soprano Sky

BEGINNINGS. Under a Soprano Sky (section 1)

A poem for my brother

elegy for MOVE and Philadelphia

Poem

Morning raga: 6/28/84

Philadelphia: Spring, 1985

At the Gallery of La Casa de Las Americas, Habana. Dec. 1984

haiku for morani and mungu

3 x 3 shigeko: a hiroshima maiden speaks:

3 x 3 Carl: a Black man Speaks

3 x 3

the poet: speaks after silence: insomnia

"There is no news from Auschwitz"question for mrs. rinaldi

words for mr. and mrs. rinaldi

the inmate

Last recording session/for papa Joe

tanka for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the skyhaiku (walking in the rain in Guyana)

on listening to Malcolm's Ballot or The BulletSong

No. 3 for 2nd & 3rd grade sisters

Dear Mama,

Fallshort poem: at midnight

short poem 3

haiku for mungu and morani and the children of soweto

haiku for john brown

A poem for my most Intelligent 10:30 am Class/ Fall, 1985

Haiku for Paul Robeson

Africa Poem No. 4

style no. 1

Graduation Notes

8. from Generations

From a Black Feminist Conference

Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet

Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament

A Poem of Praise for Gerald Penny . . .Father and Daughter

9. from Homegirls and Handgrenades

StoryPoem Written After Reading Wright's "American Hunger"

A Song

Haiku [i see you blackboy . . . ]

Masks

A Poem for Paul

Bubba

A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King

MIAS

On Seeing a Pacifist Burn

Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele

10. from Wounded in the House of a Friend

PART I. Wounded in the House of a Friend: Set No. 1

PART II. Catch the Fire

A Love Song for Spelman

Poem [What I have seen in the twentieth century . . . ]

PART III. Love Song No. 3. Introduction of Toni Morrison . . .

Poem for July 4, 1994 For President Václav Havel

This Is Not a Small Voice

PART IV. Poem for Some Women

haiku 1 [i have died and dreamed . . . ]

blues haiku 1 [all this talk bout love . . . ]

tanka [i have taken five . . . ]

haiku 2 [everywhere i turn . . . ]

haiku 4 [your breath in exile . . . ]

haiku 6 [if i had known then . . . ]

sonku [have mercy on the . . . ]

South African tanka [the necklace i bring . . . ]

haiku 8 [i am hunched down in . . . ]

blues haiku 2 [ain't no curves in his . . . ]

haiku 9 [the sprawling sound . . . ]

11. from Does Your House Have Lions?

sister's voice

brother's voice

12. from Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

Dancing

Haiku [you ask me to run . . . ]

Song

Tanka [i don't know the rules . . . ]

Haiku [i come from the same . . . ]

Haiku [i have caught fire from . . . ]

Haiku [love between us is . . . ]

Haiku [i turn westward in . . . ]

Sonku [i collect . . . ]

Sonku [i who have . . . ]

Blues haiku [you too slippery . . . ]

Haiku [come windless invader . . . ]

Haiku [i am moving in . . . ]

Haiku on passing Toni Cade Bambara's house

Blues haiku [what i need is traveling . . . ]

Haiku [old man standing long . . . ]Haiku [it is i who have . . . ]

Tanka [this man has sucked too . . . ]

Haiku [i am watersnake . . . ]

Haiku [i am the ugly . . . ]

Haiku [have you ever crossed . . . ]

Haiku [mixed with day and sun . . . ]

Blues [even though you came in december be my january man . . . ]

Haiku [how fast is the wind . . . ]

Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil . . . ]

Blues Haiku [am i yo philly . . . ]

Haiku [my womb is a dance . . . ]

Haiku [sweet woman dancing . . . ]

Poem [i am dreaming . . . ]

Sonku [love comes with . . . ]

Haiku [c'mon man hold me . . . ]

Tanka [c'mon man ride me . . . ]

Sonku [i feel your . . . ]

Sonku [i hear the . . . ]

Haiku [i am who i am . . . ]Haiku question from a young sisterPoem [Good morning, sex . . . ]

Blues haiku [yall talkin all under . . . ]

Blues haiku [i wuz in Kansas . . . ]

Haiku [i am looking for . . . ]

Haiku [these waves boisterous like . . . ]

Haiku for Louis Massiah

Sonku [what is love . . . ]

Blues haiku [my face is a scarred . . . ]

Haiku [derelict with eyes . . . ]

Haiku [they smell like rust . . . ]

Haiku [a tint on the tongue . . . ]

Haiku [my teeth can write your . . . ]

Haiku [i have carved your face . . . ]

Sonku [my eyes look . . . ]

Haiku [i am a small piece . . . ]

Haiku [to be lifted in . . . ]

Tanka [woman without heat . . . ]

Haiku [it was nothing big . . . ]

Sonku [what i want . . . ]

Haiku [i hear your breath . . . ]

Haiku for Joe Barry

Haiku [red orange breasts sweet . . . ]

Haiku [and i am flesh burnt . . . ]

Haiku [this poem is for me . . . ]

Short Poem [quite often without . . . ]

Haiku 2 [my bones migrate in . . . ]

Haiku [do you want ashes . . . ]

Haiku [if i were an old . . . ]

Haiku [you are rock garden . . . ]

Tanka [to surround yourself with . . . ]

Sonku [to worship . . . ]

Haiku [my bones hang to . . . ]

Haiku [in this wet season . . . ]

A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald

Love Poem for Tupac

For Tupac Amaru Shakur

from Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara

For Sister Gwen Brooks

13. from Shake Loose My Skin

Morning Song and Evening Walk

For Sweet Honey in the Rock

Aaaayeee Babo (Praise God)

Fragment 1

Fragment 2

Haiku [man. you write me so . . . ]

Towhomitmayconcern

Song No. 2

An Anthem for the ANC and Brandywine Peace Community

14. from Morning Haikuhaikuography

10 haiku for Max Roach

dance haiku

14 haiku for Emmett Louis Till

from 21 haiku for Odetta

4 haiku for Max Roach

sister haiku for Pat

15 haiku for Toni Morrison

6 haiku for Elizabeth Catlett in Cuernavaca

2 haiku for Ras Baraka

5 haiku for Sarah Vaughan

9 haiku for Freedom's Sisters

5 love haiku

6 haiku for Maya Angelou

memory haiku

haiku poem: 1 year after 9/11

15. Envoi: For Harriet Tubman

Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman.

Other Format:

Online version: Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- Collected poems

ISBN:

9780807026526

0807026522

OCLC:

1227836832