Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice review, recensie en informatie boek met een selectie van de gedichten van de Afro-Amerikaanse dichteres. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt als Penguin Modern Classic het boek met selected poems van Sonia Sanchez. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.
Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice review en recensie
- “The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well.” (Chinua Achebe)
- “Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.” (Isabel Allende)
- “A lion in literature’s forest.” (Maya Angelou)
This Is Not a Small Voice
Selected Poems
- Auteur: Sonia Sanchez (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 176 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek met gedichten van Sonia Sanchez
hear your voice
a wild sea pausing in the wind
Few poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and abundant positivity that characterize Sonia Sanchez’s astonishing body of work.
Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez’s poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world, including Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe. Whether it’s her iconic haiku, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchez’s luminous verse thrums with a profound generosity and an international consciousness, rendering all of life’s agony and ecstasy.
This volume draws on Sanchez’s diverse repertoire to showcase the multiplicities of the poet’s voice – the profound and personal, the firebrand and socially conscious, the playful and formally dextrous, and the musical – to celebrate her as one of the world’s most skilled and versatile poets of the past half century.
Sonia Sanchez was born on 8 september 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States as Wilsonia Benita Driver. She is a poet, playwright, educator, activist, and one of the founders of the Black Arts movement. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Does Your House Have Lions?, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Homegirls & Handgrenades, which won an American Book Award. She has also received many other awards including the Robert Creeley Award, the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Philadelphia.