{"product_id":"homegirls-handgrenades-isbn-9780807012956","title":"Homegirls \u0026 Handgrenades","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the American Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”—Maya Angelou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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.THE POWER OF LOVE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoem No. 10\u003cbr\u003eWelcome Home, My Prince\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Fifth Day\u003cbr\u003eHaiku\u003cbr\u003eStory\u003cbr\u003eHaiku\u003cbr\u003e“Just Don’t Never Give Up on Love”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBLUES IS BULLETS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoem Written After Reading Wright’s “American Hunger”\u003cbr\u003eBlues\u003cbr\u003eNorma\u003cbr\u003eDepression\u003cbr\u003eBallad\u003cbr\u003eTo All Brothers: From All Sisters\u003cbr\u003ePoem No. 12\u003cbr\u003eA Song\u003cbr\u003eAfter Saturday Night Comes Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEYOND THE FALLOUT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBluebirdbluebirdthrumywindow\u003cbr\u003eHaiku\u003cbr\u003eI Have Walked a Long Time\u003cbr\u003eKaleidoscope\u003cbr\u003eOn Passing thru Morgantown, Pa.\u003cbr\u003eMasks\u003cbr\u003eOn Seeing a Pacifist Burn\u003cbr\u003eTraveling on an Amtrak Train Could Humanize You\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGRENADES ARE NOT FREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBubba\u003cbr\u003eA Poem for Paul\u003cbr\u003eFrom a Black Feminist Conference\u003cbr\u003eHaiku\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele\u003cbr\u003eReflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King\u003cbr\u003eMIAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author“Sonia Sanchez’s poetry is a must for all readers. Period.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With an unblinking and critical poet’s eye, Sonia Sanchez has been setting her readers straight, telling the ‘terrible beauty,’ and reflecting images in ways that simultaneously solicit tears and laughter . . . . She has not given up the struggle to let her poetry be what she refers to as a ‘call to arms’ for her people.”\u003cbr\u003e—Juanita Johnson-Bailey, \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.”\u003cbr\u003e—Isabel Allende\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly. . . . This world is a better place because of Sonia Sanchez: move livable, more laughable, more manageable. I wish millions of people knew that some of the joy in their lives comes from the fact that Sonia Sanchez is writing poetry.”\u003cbr\u003e—Maya Angelou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; her praise songs thunder and revitalize. We need these songs for our journey together into the next century.”\u003cbr\u003e—Joy HarjoPoet, playwright, educator, and activist \u003cb\u003eSonia Sanchez\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seventeen books including \u003ci\u003eHomecoming, We a BaddDDD People, Under a Soprano Sky, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Does Your House Have Lions? Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums, Shake Loose My Skin\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently, \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong hundreds of honors she has received are the Langston Hughes Poetry Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomegirls \u0026amp; Handgrenades \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 1985 American Book award, and \u003ci\u003eDoes Your House Have Lions? \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonia Sanchez has taught and lectured at over 500 universities and colleges in the United States and has traveled extensively, reading her poetry in Africa, Australia, Cuba, England, the Caribbean, Norway, Canada, and the People’s Republic of China. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English until her retirement in 1999.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301089857765,"sku":"NP9780807012956","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807012956.jpg?v=1767729171","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/homegirls-handgrenades-isbn-9780807012956","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}