Homegirls & Handgrenades

Sonia Sanchez

White Pine Press, 2007 - Poetry - 89 pages

Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty. Isabel Allende

A reprint of Sonia Sanchez s award-winning collection, which contains some of her seminal work. Winner of the American Book Award.

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, and scholar and one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement. She is the author of sixteen books and lives in Philadelphia."

Contents

• THE POWER OF Love: 9
• Just Dont Never Give Up on Love: 18
• American Hunger: 25

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Homegirls & Handgrenades
• Author: Sonia Sanchez
• Contributor: White Pine Press
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: White Pine Press, 2007
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jun 12, 2008
• ISBN: 1893996808, 9781893996809
• Length: 89 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / African American & Black; Poetry / American / Hispanic & Latino; Poetry / General