Shake Loose My Skin New and Selected Poems

by Sanchez, Sonia

• ISBN13: 9780807068533
• ISBN10: 0807068535
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-07
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.

Author Biography

Sonia Sanchez is poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. Her numerous honors include the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award. she is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.

Table of Contents

I. from I've Been a Woman 1978
Homecoming	3	(1)
Poem at Thirty	4	(2)
Malcolm	6	(2)
Personal Letter No. 2	8	(1)
A Poem for My Father	9	(1)
Peom No. 3	10	(1)
Blues	11	(1)
Haiku	12	(1)
Sequences	13	(3)
Haiku	16	(1)
Poem No. 8	17	(1)
Present	18	(2)
Tanka	20	(1)
Tanka	21	(1)
A Love Poem Written for Sterling Brown	22	(1)
Kwa mama zetu waliotuzaa	23	(6)
II. from Homegirls and Handgrenades 1984
``Just Don't Never Give Up on Love''	29	(6)
Ballad	35	(1)
After Saturday Night Comes Sunday	36	(11)
I Have Walked a Long Time	47	(2)
On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa.	49	(1)
On Seeing a Pacifist Burn	50	(1)
Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele	51	(6)
III. from Under a Soprano Sky 1987
Under a Soprano Sky	57	(2)
Philadelphia: Spring, 1985	59	(3)
Haiku	62	(3)
Dear Mama	63	(2)
Fall	67	(1)
Fragment 1	68	(1)
Fragment 2	69	(1)
Haiku	70	(1)
Towhomitmayconcern	71	(1)
Blues	72	(1)
Song No. 2	73	(2)
An Anthem	75	(2)
Graduation Notes	77	(4)
IV. from Wounded in the House of a Friend 1995
Wounded in the House of a Friend	81	(12)
Catch the Fire	93	(3)
A Remembrance	96	(5)
Poem for July 4, 1994	101	(5)
This Is Not a Small Voice	106	(1)
Like	107	(2)
Haiku 1	109	(1)
Haiku 9	110	(3)
V. from Does Your House Have Lions? 1997
Father's Voice	113	(14)
VI. from Like the Singing Coming off the Drums 1998
Dancing	127	(1)
Haiku	128	(1)
Tanka	129	(1)
Blues Haiku	130	(1)
Blues Haiku	131	(1)
Haiku	132	(1)
Love Poem	133	(6)
VII. NEW WORKS
Mrs. Benita Jones Speaks	139	(4)
Morning Song and Evening Walk	143	(5)
For Sweet Honey in the Rock	148	(3)
Aaaayeee Babo (Praise God)	151