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.