Synopsis As is her custom, Wanda Coleman here mixes prose with poetry, performance scores with lyric dream poems, sharply political poems with bitingly funny ones. In one poem, she portrays her confusion at finding herself in South Central L.A., hoping to score, but not sure what she wants: then she wakes to discover she was launched into this bleak dream by reading Shakespeare. Another poem takes the form of a multiple choice quiz, enumerating all the ways people interpret seeing a white man in a black neighborhood and vice versa.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1993-02-01 | | Edition Description: | Signed |
Industry Reviews Hard, brilliant strokes shot through with street music in this sixth book by Los Angeles poet and short story writer Coleman. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Reference & Research Book News
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