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Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

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ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post

A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman.

Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected by the elites during her lifetime, here's what people are saying now:

--One of the year's best! "These poems are wildly fun and inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every human experience and emotion."--New York Times

--Winner, California Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020

--"Required Reading" Bustle

--"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A." The New Yorker

--One of the year's best! "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post

--"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did."--Poetry

A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles, Wanda Coleman made art while living every day with racism, poverty, violence. Her triumph is in words that endure. It's time for Coleman's courageous, impassioned, inspiring, one-of-a-kind voice to reach readers everywhere.

Book Details

Publisher:
Black Sparrow Press
ISBN:
9781574232370
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
224
Authors:
Wanda Coleman
Published Date:
2020-04-07
Language:
English

About Wanda Coleman

Wanda Coleman (1946–2013) grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her collection Bathwater Wine (Black Sparrow Press, 1998) received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1999, and Mercurochrome (Black Sparrow Press, 2001) was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. Her earlier collections include Imagoes (Black Sparrow Press, 1983) and African Sleeping Sickness (Black Sparrow Press, 1990). She worked as a medical secretary, magazine editor, journalist, and Emmy Award-winning scriptwriter, and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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