Under a Soprano Sky

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Africa World Press, 1987 - Poetry - 101 pages
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.): $6.95.

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About the author (1987)

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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TitleUnder a Soprano Sky
AuthorSonia Sanchez
Editionreprint
PublisherAfrica World Press, 1987
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 12, 2008
ISBN0865430527, 9780865430525
Length101 pages
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Poetry / American / General
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