Wanda Coleman, Author . Black Sparrow $17 (276p) ISBN 978-1-57423-154-0
"i am an outlaw, they assert./ there's a ten-digit number stamped on my frontal lobe." This sprawling eleventh collection of poems from the Los Angeles-based Coleman finds her zig-zagging between continuations of series begun in American
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Wanda Coleman, Author . Univ. of Pittsburgh $12.95 (115p) ISBN 978-0-8229-5833-8
Coleman's last two explosive, masterful collections were Mercurochrome
, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Bathwater Wine
, which was awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Ostinato Vamps
seems markedly less verbally...
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Wanda Coleman, Author . Black Sparrow $24.95 (147p) ISBN 978-1-57423-212-7
The sharpest stories from Coleman, a 2001 National Book Award finalist in poetry for Mercurochrome
, provide unsettlingly familiar portraits of lonely people attempting to negotiate difficult, mostly urban lives. Her characters torment each other,...
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Wanda Coleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $15.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-87685-896-7
With her seventh large volume in 14 years, the prolific Coleman ( Imagoes ) proves herself a good poet badly in need of a strong editor. If Charles Bukowski is one day reincarnated as an African American female, his graphic sexual imagery, and his...
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Wanda Coleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57423-022-2
Satire and journalism are alive and well in L.A., at least when poet Coleman (African Sleeping Sickness) is doing the biting and reporting. Her collection of articles, essays, columns and interviews is more than a paean to her birthplace. She gives...
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Wanda Coleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $17.95 (404p) ISBN 978-1-57423-094-9
A close friendship between two women is the basis of this ambitious but overlong and discursive novel. Tamala Fortenot, a woman of mixed racial heritage and lofty dreams, seeks to overcome the sometimes comedic but often tragic follies of her...
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Wanda Coleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $25 (250p) ISBN 978-1-57423-095-6
A close friendship between two women is the basis of this ambitious but overlong and discursive novel. Tamala Fortenot, a woman of mixed racial heritage and lofty dreams, seeks to overcome the sometimes comedic but often tragic follies of her...
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Wanda Coleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $16.95 (290p) ISBN 978-1-57423-064-2
Coleman's seventh book with Black Sparrow is an encyclopedic, moment-by-moment accounting of left coast rage, witness and transcendence. The poems move agilely from a tragic (yet comedic) resignation, to verbal riffs and hijinks, to direct, in-your-f
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W. Coleman, Author, Wanda Coleman, Author Black Sparrow Press $16.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-87685-735-9
Coleman ( Heavy Daughter Blues, etc.) pens knowing tales of the black urban poor, describing hardworking waitresses looking for a way out, a man who literally starves himself to death supporting a luxury car, and a future world where the lower...
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Wanda Coleman. Black Sparrow, $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-57423-253-0
In this essential collection of Coleman's signature "American Sonnets," critical poise and dazzling imagery are on resounding display. Coleman throws herself "heart first into this ruin": the ruin of America, of love, and of the body. Relentlessly...
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