Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
Autor Wanda Coleman Editat de Terrance Hayesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2021
'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent'Mary Karr
'Sure, wise and devastating . . . a joy'Caleb Azumah Nelson
'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent'Washington Post
Nobody wrote about police hassle like she did. Nobody wrote about making ends meet, about the history of the slave trade or the comedy of the daily grind, with the same breathtaking originality and brio; and few writers, before or since, have had the courage to write with such honesty about their everyday experience of life - and love - in an unjust world.
This is the first ever UK publication of the poetry of Wanda Coleman: a beat-up, broke and Black woman who wrote with defiance, humour and clarity about her life on the margins, and who went overlooked by the establishment for decades - even as she was known colloquially as 'the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles'.
Wicked Enchantmentgathers 130 of Coleman's poems in a selection by Terrance Hayes. Funny, angry, endlessly alive and written with an immediacy and frankness that captivate, here is the essential work of a poet of fierce resistance and self-belief against the odds.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141995830
ISBN-10: 0141995831
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141995831
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Wanda
Colemanwas
born
in
the
Watts
neighbourhood
of
Los
Angeles
in
1946.
Her
first
collection
wasMad
Dog
Black
Lady,
published
in
1979
by
Black
Sparrow
Press,
who
would
remain
her
publisher
for
the
rest
of
her
life.
Early
fellowships
were
followed
by
years
of
limited
recognition,
during
which
she
wrote
a
number
of
books
includingAmerican
Sonnets(1994).
The
selection
ofMercurochrome(2001)
as
a
National
Book
Awards
finalist
began
to
breathe
new
life
into
her
reputation.
In
2012,
she
won
the
Poetry
Society
of
America's
Shelley
Memorial
Award.
She
died
in
2013.
Recenzii
In
thissure,
wise
and
devastatingcollection,
Coleman
pushes
against
the
limitations
of
language
...I
cried
many
times
while
reading
but
also
laughed
enormously.
What
a
joy
of
a
book
Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent
Wanda Coleman'speerlessWicked Enchantmenthaswords to crack you open and heal you where it counts - hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent. All honor to her name
Wanda Colemangives literary voice to thoughts on survival, as a Black woman who suffers economic, racist and misogynistic attack.Essential reading for all
One of the greatest poets ever to come out of LA
Coleman ismaster of telling unvarnished truths - about self, about the world, about personal past and our collective future
Her workpushes us to confront injusticewith as much candor as she did
Her works crackle with life ... aching and meditative
Sassy, funny, and wickedly sharp... there are more than a dozen poems in Hayes's astute gathering that should be widely anthologized, certainly as much as any poem by Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, or [Frank] O'Hara ...Wicked Enchantmentshould help set the record straight: Coleman is a great American poet
Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent
Wanda Coleman'speerlessWicked Enchantmenthaswords to crack you open and heal you where it counts - hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent. All honor to her name
Wanda Colemangives literary voice to thoughts on survival, as a Black woman who suffers economic, racist and misogynistic attack.Essential reading for all
One of the greatest poets ever to come out of LA
Coleman ismaster of telling unvarnished truths - about self, about the world, about personal past and our collective future
Her workpushes us to confront injusticewith as much candor as she did
Her works crackle with life ... aching and meditative
Sassy, funny, and wickedly sharp... there are more than a dozen poems in Hayes's astute gathering that should be widely anthologized, certainly as much as any poem by Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, or [Frank] O'Hara ...Wicked Enchantmentshould help set the record straight: Coleman is a great American poet