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Trade Review"These powerfully swinging, jabbing, lamenting, testifying, and protesting poems. . . coalesce in a galvanizing, timely, and timeless flow of creativity, valor, compassion, and wisdom." -- Donna Seaman * Booklist Review *
“Acclaimed poet, playwright, and novelist Shange, takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood in her first selected volume.The poems showcase vibrant narratives of black women who are neither solely saints nor sinners.”
* Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review *
“Shange returns with powerful new poems… drawn from the daily realities of black life. No poet since Langston Hughes has insisted so forcefully on black people’s right to simply
be…” * Washington Post *
“Vibrant enough to leave a mark. . . . Shange parses the beauty in cultural variation, music, womanhood, urban life and language.” * New York magazine *
“A revelation . . Shange is as fearless as ever in poems that reveal our humanity and pain.”
— Essence
