Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems by Wanda Coleman (English) Paperback Book

Description: Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman, Terrance Hayes The time has never been better for this re-introduction of Wanda Colemans work to a new audience of readers. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description ONE OF THE YEARS BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the peoples poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected by the elites during her lifetime, heres what people are saying now: --One of the years best! "These poems are wildly fun and inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every human experience and emotion."--New York Times --Winner, California Independent Bookseller Alliance Golden Poppy Book Award 2020 --"Required Reading" Bustle --"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A." The New Yorker --One of the years best! "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post --"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did."--Poetry A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles, Wanda Coleman made art while living every day with racism, poverty, violence. Her triumph is in words that endure. Its time for Colemans courageous, impassioned, inspiring, one-of-a-kind voice to reach readers everywhere. Author Biography Wanda Coleman--poet, storyteller and journalist--was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was awarded the prestigious 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine from the American Academy of Poets, becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the prize, and was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for Mercurochrome. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is the first new collection of her work since her death in 2013.Terrance Hayes (editor) is the author of Lighthead (National Book Award winner) and, most recently, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Critics Top Books of 2018)--both from Penguin Books. Hayes was awarded a MacArthur Genius Fellowship in 2014. Hayes served as the 2017-2018 poetry editor for New York Times Magazine, and was guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2014. Hayes lives in New York City. Review MORE POETRY & PROSE BY WANDA COLEMAN FROM BLACK SPARROW PRESS Heart First into this Ruin "Essential....one of the most important and surprising voices in American poetry." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Wanda Coleman, who died at the age of 67 in 2013, may be one of Americas best sonneteers but she was never celebrated as such during her lifetime because she didnt play nice. Coleman was dismissed as too angry, too despairing, too contradictory, too unruly and too Black. As a single mother who grew up in Watts, Coleman was too honest about the failures of this nations deep-rooted racism at a time when editors wanted Black poetry sandpapered down for white readers." --Cathy Park Hong, The New York Times "Poems of force and wisdom." --Boston Globe Mercurochrome "In the decade since her death, Colemans greatness is gaining widespread recognition....Her radicalness here is not one of formal experimentation but of accountability for her damaged yet resilient psyche as a child born in 1946, during Jim Crow segregation. She gives voice to that which might otherwise remain unspoken."-- Adam Bradley, New York Times T Magazine Bathwater Wine "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."--from the jurys citation for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Hand Dance "Colemans poems are an act of liberation, meant to be experienced as something almost physical, like a punch or a whipping . . . she wants her language to express anger, to incite anger, and to shake all those who read it out of their complacency."--The Nation Imagoes "Hard, brilliant strokes shot through with street music . . ."--Booklist Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors "Her extraordinary eye for detail and personal perspective universalizes her experience and makes her observations both trenchant and reliable."--Publishers Weekly The Riot Inside Me: More Trial and Tremors "Coleman is best known for her warrior voice. [But her] voice too can weep elegiac, summoning memories of childhoods neighborhoods - her South L.A.s wild-frond palms, the smog-smear of pre-ecology consciousness. Her voice hits notes as desperate as Billie Holidays tours of sorrows more desolate stretches. But it can also land a wily punch line as solid as that of a stand-up comic."--Los Angeles Times War of Eyes "These are extraordinary stories, told in a powerful voice. This is the painful reality of the powerlessness that is too often shrouded in bureaucratic anonymity--a probation number, a welfare case number. Coleman, with her fine poets eye and strong intense language, brings to life their somber existences."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Promotional David R. Godine, Publisher Review Quote The world of Wanda Coleman from Black Sparrow Press Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems "Wanda Colemans peerless Wicked Enchantment has words to crack you open and heal you where it counts--hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent. All honor to her name." --Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author "Colemans significance is unquestioned."-- Poetry Foundation "Wanda Coleman is a master of honesty. Her writing is an artifact of a life defined by brilliance, outspokenness, and survival."--Courtney Taylor, SLICE Mercurochrome "Wanda Colemans poetry stings, stains, and ultimately helps heal wounds like the old-fashioned mercurochrome of her title. No easy remedy for the lacerating American concerns of racism and gender bias, Colemans poetry transforms pain into empathy. . . these searing, soaring poems challenge us to repair the fractures of human difference, and feel what it is to be made whole again."--The National Book Award Poetry Judges 2001, Stanley Plumly, Chair Bathwater Wine "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." --from the jurys citation for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Hand Dance "Colemans poems are an act of liberation, meant to be experienced as something almost physical, like a punch or a whipping . . . she wants her language to express anger, to incite anger, and to shake all those who read it out of their complacency."-- The Nation Imagoes "Hard, brilliant strokes shot through with street music . . ."-- Booklist Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors "Her extraordinary eye for detail and personal perspective universalizes her experience and makes her observations both trenchant and reliable." -- Publishers Weekly The Riot Inside Me: More Trial and Tremors "Coleman is best known for her warrior voice. [But her] voice too can weep elegiac, summoning memories of childhoods neighborhoods - her South L.A.s wild-frond palms, the smog-smear of pre-ecology consciousness. Her voice hits notes as desperate as Billie Holidays tours of sorrows more desolate stretches. But it can also land a wily punch line as solid as that of a stand-up comic."-- Los Angeles Times War of Eyes "These are extraordinary stories, told in a powerful voice. This is the painful reality of the powerlessness that is too often shrouded in bureaucratic anonymity--a probation number, a welfare case number. Coleman, with her fine poets eye and strong intense language, brings to life their somber existences."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review , front page Author Comments "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 our violent, fragile passions."--Terrance Hayes Details ISBN1574232460 Author Terrance Hayes Short Title Wicked Enchantment Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1574232460 ISBN-13 9781574232462 Format Paperback Subtitle Selected Poems Pages 224 Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc Imprint David R. Godine Publisher Inc Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-03-23 Edited by Terrance Hayes AU Release Date 2021-03-23 NZ Release Date 2021-03-23 US Release Date 2021-03-23 UK Release Date 2021-03-23 DEWEY 811.3 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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