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Books by Wanda Coleman
  | | The World Falls Away(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 144 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6164-2, ISBN: 0-8229-6164-4 "The burnings from which Coleman culls her work casts a glow and unique warmth that invites the reader to sit by her metaphorical hearth, to laugh and enjoy their “conversation.” The contemplative and philosophical have entered her voice as she continues to explore the conflicts and confusions that shape the aesthetic terrain of Southern California and beyond—as she continues to grapple with cultural bias, malignant domestic neglect, pov ..." |
 | | The Riot Inside Me(1st Edition) More Trials & Tremors von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 261 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von David R Godine ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-200-4, ISBN: 1-57423-200-2 "In this, her second collection of nonfiction prose, Wanda Coleman continues the project she began in Native in a Strange Land (1996), a project she once described as "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through scattered fragments of my living memory." It is a sometimes antic tour, with unforgettable commentary - Coleman's "intermittent outcries, moans, shouts, and jubilations along the route."The ..." |
 | | Ostinato Vamps(1st Edition) Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5833-8, ISBN: 0-8229-5833-3 "Ostinato Vamps is Wanda Coleman's first book of poetry since the demise of her longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press. It continues and enlarges the traits that have been her hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line underneath her stanzas. Linguistically daring, lyrically breathtaking, stylistically bold, these poems both explore familiar territo ..." |
 | | Mercurochrome(1st Edition) New Poems von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 270 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-153-3, ISBN: 1-57423-153-7 "”Wanda Coleman was a great poet, a real in-the-flesh, flesh-eating poet who also happened to be a real black woman. Amid a life of single motherhood, multiple marriages, and multiple jobs that included waitress, medical file clerk, and screenwriter, she made poems. She denounced boredom, cowardice, the status quo. Few poets of any stripe write with as much forthrightness about poverty, about literary ambition, about depression, about ou ..." |
 | | Mambo Hips and Make Believe(1st Edition) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 250 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-094-9, ISBN: 1-57423-094-8 "Fiction. Wanda Coleman's powerful new novel chronicles the friendship between two women -- one from the black ghetto of Los Angeles, one from its white middle-class suburbs. Both are aspiring writers, both scramble to pay their bills by pickup jobs like waitressing and editing pulp magazines. For two decades they share each others' troubles and triumphs in and out of work and love. Coleman focuses primarily on the white protagonist's po ..." |
 | | A War of Eyes and Other Stories von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 200 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1988 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87685-735-9, ISBN: 0-87685-735-7 "In this extraordinary collection of short stories, Wanda Coleman, a poet who grew up in the Watts area of Los Angeles, turns a baleful eye on lives that "mainstream" America wishes would somehow go away: She chronicles the not-so-quiet desperation of the poor and black urban dweller and gives voice to their unending struggle to keep afloat in a hard-scrabble environment circumscribed by racism and poverty.With surgical precision, she cu ..." |
 | | The Love Project(1st Edition) A Marriage Made in Poetry von Wanda Coleman, Austin Straus Paperback, 120 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Red Hen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-967-7, ISBN: 1-59709-967-8 "There’s plenty of love between Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus, but it has an edge: every kiss, every snuggle, every touch is political. How to make a marriage work under the unyielding pressures of racial bigotry and cultural bias? How to maintain their creativity and independence as poets and artists faced with the daily pressures of survival? For over three decades, Coleman and Straus have grappled with these questions—and with one a ..." |
 | | Native in a Strange Land(1st Edition) Trials & Tremors von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 292 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1996 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-022-2, ISBN: 1-57423-022-0 "In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory".This book foll ..." |
 | | Poems Seismic in Scene(4th Edition) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 82 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-4477-5749-8, ISBN: 1-4477-5749-1 "Lors de sa tournée en France en 2006, elle a rencontré le graphiste Jean- Jacques Tachdjian. Séduit par la force de ses poèmes, Jean-Jacques a décidé de les mettre en page. Le typographe rend compte à sa manière de l'exubérance et de l'originalité de Wanda disant ses textes sur scène : tendres, doux, violents, en colère... Les lettres décrivent la vie quotidienne des noirs, s'entrechoquent, se métamorphosent en chimères, en logos, e ..." |
 | | Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales(1st Edition) New Stories (A Black Sparrow Book) von Wanda Coleman Hardcover, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von David R. Godine, Publisher ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-212-7, ISBN: 1-57423-212-6 "Poets who can write prose that equals their poetry are rare. With this collection of thirteen new short stories, Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles's unofficial poet laureate, proves an exception to the rule yet again. Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales owes its title to the lyrics of 'Lush Life' by Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's right-hand man. Like the heartbroken lover of Strayhorn's song, the characters in these stories lead lonely lives full ..." |
 | | Imagoes(1st Edition) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 169 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1983 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87685-509-6, ISBN: 0-87685-509-5 ""--Los Angeles Times In Imagoes, Wanda Coleman blends memory with the reality of her present through an idiom that oscillates seamlessly between natural imagery and the urban edifice of Los Angeles." |
 | | Wicked Enchantment Selected Poems von Wanda Coleman, Terrance Hayes Hardcover, 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-237-0, ISBN: 1-57423-237-1 "The time has never been better for this re-introduction of Wanda Coleman's work to a new audience of readers. For Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems--the first new gathering of Coleman's work since her death--editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems from Coleman's four-decade career. As Hayes writes, "Wanda Coleman denounced boredom, cowardice, the status quo. Few poets of any stripe write with as much forthrightness about ..." |
 | | Bathwater Wine(1st Edition) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 292 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57423-064-2, ISBN: 1-57423-064-6 "Winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize "Coleman is a poet whose angry and extravagant music, so far beyond baroque, has been making itself heard across the divide between West Coast and East, establishment and margins, slams and seminars, across the too-American rift among races and genders, for two decades. She excels in public performance…but her poems do not require her physical presence: they perform themselves."―Marilyn Ha ..." |
 | | Heavy Daughter Blues Poems and Stories, 1968-1986 von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 220 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1987 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87685-701-4, ISBN: 0-87685-701-2 "Poet Wanda Coleman provides a how-to manual, revealing some immediate ways not only to "fix a bad man hex" or "do dirty better," but to keep one's dream-light burning amid the aching rush of dark and anxious times.These poems and stories reflect the daily struggles of a poet-performer whose fight to survive is "plagued by the fear of not making it" ("Trying To Get In"). Poverty is an ever-present set of "claws" to grapple with, and in C ..." |
 | | Wicked Enchantment Selected Poems (Paperback) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 288 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-199583-0, ISBN: 0-14-199583-1 "This is the first ever UK publication of the poetry of Wanda Coleman- a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humour and clarity about her life on the margins, and who went overlooked by the establishment for much of her career ..." |
 | | African Sleeping Sickness(1st Edition) Stories and Poems (Hoover Press Publication; 392) von Wanda Coleman Paperback, 328 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1990 von Black Sparrow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87685-812-7, ISBN: 0-87685-812-4 "Coleman is one of the decade's most moral poets, showing us in feverishly focused first- and third-person dramatic monologues the grim life of L.A.'s streets. It's impossible to paraphrase her colloquial, dynamic style: "where I live / the little gangsters diddy-bop through and pick up / young bitches and flirt with old ones, looking to / snatch somebody's purse or find their way into somebody's / snatch 'cause mama don't want them at h ..." |
 | | American Prophets Interviews with Thinkers, Activists, Poets and Visionaries von Paul E. Nelson, Allen Ginsberg, Wanda Coleman Paperback, 310 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Splab! ISBN-13: 978-0-692-03577-1, ISBN: 0-692-03577-X "A book of sixteen interviews taken from the best of over 600 conducted by Seattle poet Paul E Nelson. The book includes an A-List of luminaries who have dedicated their professional careers to deep, positive changes through a focus on whole-systems thinking and activation of creative approaches so individuals and society flourish. Grouped in three segments: Thinkers/Activists: Gloria DeGaetano, Rupert Sheldrake, Jean Houston, Larry Dos ..." |
 | | The Love Project(1st Edition) A Marriage Made in Poetry von Wanda Coleman, Austin Straus Hardcover, 115 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Red Hen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-733-8, ISBN: 1-59709-733-0 "There’s plenty of love between Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus, but it has an edge: every kiss, every snuggle, every touch is political. How to make a marriage work under the unyielding pressures of racial bigotry and cultural bias? How to maintain their creativity and independence as poets and artists faced with the daily pressures of survival? For over three decades, Coleman and Straus have grappled with these questionsand with one a ..." |
 | | Pitt Poetry Ser. The World Falls Away von Wanda Coleman 144 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-7833-6, ISBN: 0-8229-7833-4 "Wanda Coleman. FOOTNOTE. TO. AN. UNFINISHED. POEM. —after Hayes after Lorca Carmel-by-the-sea is a lonely tree overlooking Pacifica twice eternity. That was the time I was in the process of discovering that I was rediscovering Borges, if that's not too complex? It was the mid-80s and I was doing kamikaze watch over Berkeley and The Bay. “Bitch, I told you to ceaseand-desist!” Dig, Big Sur, it was long over at Big Sur (damn, I do so ..." |
 | | Pitt Poetry Ser. Ostinato Vamps : Poems von Wanda Coleman 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-7987-6, ISBN: 0-8229-7987-X "Wanda Coleman has received numerous awards for her poetry and fiction, includinga Djerassi residencyand fellowships from the JohnSimon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and theCalifornia ArtsCouncil. She receivedthe1999 Lenore Marshall Prizefor Bathwater Wine fromthe Academy of American Poets, The Nation, andthe New Hope Foundation. She wasabronzemedal finalistat the 2001 National BookAwards for Mercurochr ..." |
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