Loved ither poetry is hard-hitting and in your face but the truth it's all the truth and she writes in a way that you know that is so hard-hitting and in your face
Wicked Enchantment (2020)
Others: Positive "Wanda Coleman-"the unofficial poet laureate of L.A."-passed away in 2013, but her influence casts a long shadow across contemporary American poetry, including Terrance Hayes' American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. In this first new collection of Coleman's work since her death, Hayes has selected more than 130 poems originally written and published between the late 1970s and early 2000s"--
- ISBN:
- 9780141995830
- Length:
- 240 pages
Genres: poetry
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