Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

Sonia Sanchez

Beacon Press, Apr 7, 2000 - Poetry - 168 pages

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.

Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.

Contents

• from Ive Been a Woman 1978: 3
• Just Dont Never Give Up on Love: 29
• Ballad: 35
• Have Walked a Long Time: 47

About the author

Sonia Sanchez is poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. Her numerous honors include the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award. she is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
• Author: Sonia Sanchez
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Beacon Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0807068535, 9780807068533
• Length: 168 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / African American & Black; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / Women Authors