Winner of the American Book Award
A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a
refreshed edition
"A lion in literature's forest. When she writes she roars, and when she
sleeps other creatures walk gingerly."--Maya Angelou
Originally 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.