Wanda Coleman

"Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging... potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit." -Washington Post "Terrifying and fearlessly inventive." -New York Times The first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give voice to loving passions, social outrage, and hard-earned wisdom. Wanda Coleman was a...

A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality - here is the greatest and most powerful work of the 'L. A. Blueswoman'. This is the first ever UK publication of the poetry of Wanda Coleman—a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humour and clarity about her life on the margins, and who went overlooked by the establishment for much...