Mercurochrome (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Wanda Coleman
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Family or family life, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Brothers and sisters
It will not come as a surprise to those familiar with Wanda Coleman’s writing to find that the first section of her extensive volume of new poems, Mercurochrome, is titled “Canned Fury.” From the publication of her first collection of poetry, Imagoes, in 1983, through a half dozen volumes of poems, stories, and essays in the 1990’s, Coleman has shaped and developed a voice that is designed to express the essence of what she calls in “Essay on Language (6)” a person who is “besotted with passion.” In the modern world, at least since W. B. Yeats’s...
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