I’ve Been a Woman (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Wilsonia Benita Driver
- First Published: 1978
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Justice, Language or languages, Racism, Race, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women
The Work
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems is a compilation of selections from Sonia Sanchez’s major works up to 1978. This collection offers a cross section of the themes that characterize Sonia Sanchez’s poetic vision. Sanchez’s work balances the private and the public. The private, or introspective poems, are intensely personal. The public poems cover a number of concerns. Selections from Homecoming (1969), We a BaddDDD People (1970), Love Poems (1973), A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women (1974), and Generations:...
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