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Sapphire
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Black Wings & Blind Angels: Poems |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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144 |
| Date: |
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1999-09-28 |
| ISBN: |
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0679446303 |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
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0.7 pounds |
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6.03 x 8.7 x 0.69 inches |
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1st |
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3 Katie (USA: NY), Rakisha (USA: NJ), Kristen Taylor (USA: NM) |
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3 Philmontchick (USA: MN), NYC Books Through Bars (USA: NY), susanbooks (USA: MA) |
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Product Description
A book of electrifying poems by the acclaimed author of Push ("Brutal . . . redemptive"--Newsweek) and American Dreams ("Her insights are precise, terrifying, and ultimately hopeful. She sings in many voices, and every one of them cries out for justice" --Dorothy Allison).
Alive with the emotional honesty and intellectual force for which Sapphire has been admired as both a writer and a performance artist, these forty-seven poems take us into America's past and present, bearing testimony to the black experience in a country fragmented by war, racism, and urban and domestic violence. They tell the story of a search for the complicated spiritual path back to one's roots, a story of family, race, and self-transformation.
A provocative book that astonishes by the power of its language.
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