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 ev...

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1. Verfasser:	Coleman, Wanda 1946-2013 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Hayes, Terrance 1971- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Penguin Books 2021
Schlagworte:	American poetry / 20th century American poetry / 21st century Poésie américaine / 20e siècle American poetry 1900-2099 Anthologie
Zusammenfassung:	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 Enchantment gathers 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
Beschreibung:	xxiii, 251 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780141995830 0141995831