A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women

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Broadside Press, 1974 - Poetry - 62 pages

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absorb this whiteness alabama Allah aqueducts beast was seemingly became ourselves birth black braids Black hands BLACK MAGICAL WOMEN Black/MennNNN Black/woooomen Blackness let BLESSED BE ELIJAH BLUE BLACK MAGICAL BLUES BOOK body BOOK FOR BLUE calling for Elijah chanted chills tilted circle of Blackness coming girl dance day a wise deeds wishing devil earth and became earth before Elijah earth hums earth mother ELIJAH MUHAMMAD EYES BLESSED fathers girlie hay-hay-hay-hay-ya-ya-ya ISLAM killed & killed laughter let me ride let us begin listen loooOK loooven loooVVVE Master Fard Muhammad matriarchs moving MUSLIM WOMEN mussssST nation nine months passed nite Old Mill Place parties and bars person of Master QUEENS reason remembered righteousness saw our Blackness seemingly white sings our gladness smell song stopped to absorb stretched stutters SUN THE LORD sung TCBING tongues multiplying memories trumpet vision vomited walking white schools teach woman wooomen words young womanhood

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About the author (1974)

Born in Alabama, educated in New York City, Sanchez is a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement, whose poetry is written from political, economic, and social concerns as well as literary ones. Although her literary focus has been primarily to express her experience as an African American woman, Sanchez claims, "if you write from a black experience, you're writing from a universal experience as well." Sanchez's poems are direct, colloquial, and often militant. Many of her works are for children, such as her "poems for young brothas and sistuhs," as she puts it in It's a New Day (1971). Yet she also writes with tenderness about love. As academic interest in the voices of women and African Americans has intensified, critical interest in and acceptance of Sanchez's work has increased.

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TitleA Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women
Broadside poets
Broadside series
AuthorSonia Sanchez
PublisherBroadside Press, 1974
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 12, 2008
ISBN0910296782, 9780910296786
Length62 pages
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