Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A voice the world needs: the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this first new gathering of Coleman's work since her death.
Synopsis
A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called, "words to crack you open and heal you where it counts."
Synopsis
"As a poet, mother, Los Angeles native, black woman, essayist, and more, Wanda Coleman is a master of honesty. Her writing is an artifact of a life defined by brilliance, outspokenness, and survival."--Courtney Taylor, SLICE
A voice the world needs--the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called, "words to crack you open and heal you where it counts."
Synopsis
Experience the poetry of Wanda Coleman. "Words to crack you open and heal you where it counts."--Mary Karr
A voice the world needs--the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of work by the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles. A selection of Bustle's "Your National Poetry Month 2020 Required Reading List," discover why The Washington Post said, "Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent."
Synopsis
"The fearless invention of one of L.A.'s greatest poets."--Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker
A voice the world needs--the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of work by the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles.
A selection of Bustle's "Your National Poetry Month 2020 Required Reading List," discover why The Washington Post said, "Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent."
"Today, Coleman's significance is unquestioned....In Wicked Enchantment, Coleman's fans, new and old, will find some of her most vital challenges to American racism and its market-driven culture, rendered in her uniquely unsettling lyric voice. Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did--and with as much care."--Poetry Foundation
Synopsis
One of the most talked about literary collections of the year Get ready to hear a powerful voice--the truth telling, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Wanda Coleman. For this gathering of her greatest work, Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems. Through each piece in this collection, you'll discover why The Washington Post said, "Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent."
A selection of Bustle's "Your National Poetry Month 2020 Required Reading List," Wicked Enchantment is the work of a woman and writer, The New Yorker called, "One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A."
And this publication is more than just a literary event. "Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did," Poetry Foundation wrote, "and with as much care."
Synopsis
One of the most talked about literary collections of the year
--"Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent," The Washington Post
--"Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent," Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author
--"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A.," The New Yorker
--"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did," Poetry Foundation
--"Required Reading," Bustle
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems--the greatest work of Wanda Coleman, 130 poems spanning four decades, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes.
Synopsis
>A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman.
One of the most talked about literary collections of the year is this collection by a beat-up, broke, and black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity about her life on the margins of white America. These are not poems written for a college class or for polite applause; these poems were written because Ms. Coleman had to express what she saw and felt. Brutal. Savage. Triumphant. Few if any writers, before or since, have had the courage to write with such honesty about the daily experience of life in a racist world. Rejected by the elites and literary establishment during her lifetime, here's what people are saying now about Wanda Coleman and Wicked Enchantment
--"Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent." The Washington Post
--"Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent." Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author
--"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A." The New Yorker
--"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did." Poetry
--"Required Reading" Bustle
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of her poems, 130 poems in all spanning four decades, edited and introduced by renowned poet Terrance Hayes. This book is for anyone who knows what it means to be an outsider in this country or for anyone who wants to begin to understand.
Synopsis
A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman.
Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected by the elites during her lifetime, here's what people are saying now:
--"Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent." The Washington Post
--"Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent." Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author
--"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A." The New Yorker
--"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did." Poetry
--"Required Reading" Bustle
--Winner, California Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020
Brutal. Hilarious. Triumphant. These are not poems written for a college class, establishment approval, or polite applause; these poems were written because Ms. Coleman had to write what she saw and felt, and she wrote brilliantly. Few if any writers, before or since, have had the courage to write with such raw honesty about the daily experience of life in this world.
Synopsis
"ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post.
A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman.
Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected by the elites during her lifetime, here's what people are saying now:
--"One of the best poetry collections of 2020."--Washington Post
--"Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent." Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author
--"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A." The New Yorker
--"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did." Poetry
--"Required Reading" Bustle
--Winner, California Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020
Brutal. Hilarious. Triumphant. These are not poems written for a college class, establishment approval, or polite applause; these poems were written because Ms. Coleman had to write what she saw and felt, and she wrote brilliantly. Few if any writers, before or since, have had the courage to write with such raw honesty about the daily experience of life in this world.
Synopsis
ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post
A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman.
Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected by the elites during her lifetime, here's what people are saying now:
--One of the year's best "These poems are wildly fun and inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every human experience and emotion."--New York Times
--Winner, California Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020
--"Required Reading" Bustle
--"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A." The New Yorker
--One of the year's best "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post
--"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did."--Poetry
A self-made writer from Black Los Angeles, Wanda Coleman made art while living every day with racism, poverty, violence. Her triumph is in words that endure. It's time for Coleman's courageous, impassioned, inspiring, one-of-a-kind voice to reach readers everywhere.