{"product_id":"homegirls-handgrenades-paperback","title":"Homegirls \u0026 Handgrenades - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonia Sanchez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the American Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A lion in literature's forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.\"--Maya Angelou \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1984, this collection of prose, prose poems, and lyric verses is as fresh and radical today as it was then. Sonia Sanchez, the premiere poet of the Black Arts Movement, shows the \"razor blades\" in clenched in her teeth in these powerful pieces.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, playwright, educator, and activist Sonia Sanchez is the author of seventeen books including \u003ci\u003eHomecoming, We a BaddDDD People, Under a Soprano Sky, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Does Your House Have Lions? Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums, Shake Loose My Skin\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently, \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems. \u003c\/i\u003eAmong hundreds of honors she has received are the Langston Hughes Poetry Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomegirls \u0026amp; Handgrenades \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 1985 American Book award, and \u003ci\u003eDoes Your House Have Lions? \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSonia Sanchez has taught and lectured at over 500 universities and colleges in the United States and has traveled extensively, reading her poetry in Africa, Australia, Cuba, England, the Caribbean, Norway, Canada, and the People's Republic of China. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English until her retirement in 1999.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.8 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42732209471551,"sku":"9780807012956","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/300bdc147ebbfe2daef574fad4524430.webp?v=1765131669","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/homegirls-handgrenades-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}