Mambo Hips and Make Believe - Coleman, Wanda

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Auteur(s) : Coleman, Wanda

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 30/11/2005

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 404

Expédition : 594

Dimensions : 22.7 x 15.0 x 3.0

ISBN : 9781574230949

Résumé :

The story of a friendship from renowned poet, Wanda Coleman.

Wanda Coleman's novel traces the friendship of two women, one white, one black, one from the suburbs, one from the ghetto, but both aspiring writers, who for two decades share each other's troubles and triumphs in and out of work and love.

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Biographie:

Wanda Coleman-poet, storyteller and journalist-was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was awarded the prestigious 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine from the American Academy of Poets, becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the prize, and was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for Mercurochrome. In 2020, poet Terrance Hayes edited and introduced a selection of her work, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems, the first new collection of her work since her death in 2013.

Sommaire:

Wanda Coleman-poet, storyteller and journalist-was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was awarded the prestigious 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine from the American Academy of Poets, becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the prize, and was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for Mercurochrome. In 2020, poet Terrance Hayes edited and introduced a selection of her work, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems, the first new collection of her work since her death in 2013.