Homegirls and Handgrenades

Download or read book Homegirls and Handgrenades written by Sonia Sanchez and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Book Award A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition “A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”—Maya Angelou Originally published in 1984, this collection of prose, prose poems, and lyric verses is as fresh and radical today as it was then. Sonia Sanchez, the premiere poet of the Black Arts Movement, shows the “razor blades” in clenched in her teeth in these powerful pieces.