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Wanda Coleman A War of Eyes (Paperback)
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- Publication Name
- A War of Eyes
- Title
- A War of Eyes
- Subtitle
- and Other Stories
- EAN
- 9780876857359
- ISBN
- 9780876857359
- Release Date
- 14/08/2008
- Release Year
- 2008
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Book Title
- War of Eyes : and Other Stories
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Godine Publisher, David R.
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / Contemporary Women, Urban, African American / General, Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 242 Pages
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The lives of the urban desperate in their unending struggle to keep afloat in an always dangerous environment circumscribed by racism and poverty. "Extraordinary stories, told in a powerful voice."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review Wanda Coleman wrote as a witness, whether as a poet, in fiction, or journalism. She captured her world and its truths, of life with the constants of race, fear, poverty, gender, inequality, oppression. Through it all, there is passionate love and sexuality, humor and drama -- her work is full of startling confession and breathtaking power. Terrance Hayes wrote, "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." War of Eyes is for anyone who loves powerful fiction.
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Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
0876857357
ISBN-13
9780876857359
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1138933
Product Key Features
Book Title
War of Eyes : and Other Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
African American / Contemporary Women, Urban, African American / General, Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
1988
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
242 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3553.O47447w3 1988
Reviews
Praise for Wanda Coleman Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems (2020)"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 The Riot Inside Me: More Trial and Tremors (2005): "Coleman is best known for her 'warrior voice.' [But her] voice too can weep elegiac, summoning memories of childhood's neighborhoods - her South L.A.'s wild-frond palms, the smog-smear of pre-ecology consciousness. Her voice hits notes as desperate as Billie Holiday's tours of sorrow's more desolate stretches. But it can also land a wily punch line as solid as that of a stand-up comic."-- Los Angeles Times Mercurochrome (2001): "Wanda Coleman's 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, Coleman's 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 (1998): "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 jury's citation for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Hand Dance (1993): "Coleman's 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 b> African Sleeping Sickness (1990): "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 home and papa / is a figment and them farms them farms them farms / they call schools, and mudflapped bushy-headed entities / swoop the avenue seeking death / it's the only thrill left / where I live Understanding does not mean, to Coleman, mild forgiveness, it means hot rage against those of any color who prey on others in pain. Contextualizing murder, rape, poverty, addiction showing us their human faces gives Coleman a 'shattered heart,' makes her feel 'thrown heart first into this ruin,' but the experience transforms the reader." -- Booklist Imagoes (1983): "Hard, brilliant strokes shot through with street music . . ."-- Booklist
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Trade
Lccn
88-014714
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
19
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