NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work
From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning
and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered
suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes "a kaleidoscopic journey
through black womanhood" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a
moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.
In this stirring collection of more than sixty original and selected
poems in both English and Spanish, Ntozake Shange shares her utterly
unique, unapologetic, and deeply emotional writing that has made her one
of the most iconic literary figures of our time.
With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience
as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry
about pain, beauty, and color. In the bestselling tradition of Rupi
Kaur's Milk and Honey, Wild Beauty is more than a poetry collection;
it is an exquisite call to action for a new generation of women, people
of color, feminists, and activists to follow in the author's footsteps
in the pursuit of equality and understanding. As The New York Times
raves, "Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that
anyone can relate to her message."
