Sonia Sanchez (Critical Survey of Poetry)

Other Literary Forms

Principally a poet, Sonia Sanchez has also included prose in her collections of poetry, most notably in Homegirls and Handgrenades. Interspersed through the four sections of poems, she includes autobiographical narratives. Other distinguished works are dramatic plays: The Bronx Is Next (pb. 1968, pr. 1970), Sister Son/ji (pb. 1969, pr. 1972), Uh, Huh; But How Do It Free Us? (pb. 1974, pr. 1975), Malcolm Man/Don’t Live Here No Mo’ (pr. 1979), and Black Cats Back and Uneasy Landings (pr. 1995). In addition, she...

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