| #4107635 in Books | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2003-10-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.40 x6.13l,.45 | File type: PDF | 128 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating and Complex Urban Poet|By Rebecca of |In this book, I'm talking back the rhythms that were stolen from my people. Our society has suppressed the spirit of African Americans, yet when I look around me and in the media, everybody is walking, talking and singing like black people. ~Wanda Coleman
Wanda Coleman's poems are wildly complex in form and I will adm|From Publishers Weekly|Coleman's last two explosive, masterful collections were Mercurochrome, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Bathwater Wine, which was awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Ostinato Vamps seems markedly less verbally d
Ostinato Vamps is Wanda Coleman's first book of poetry since the demise of her longtime publisher, Black Sparrow Press. It continues and enlarges the traits that have been her hallmark for more than three decades: a fierce adherence to the truth and a language so musical one can almost hear the blues line underneath her stanzas.
Linguistically daring, lyrically breathtaking, stylistically bold, these poems both explore familiar territory and shatter s...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Ostinato Vamps: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) | Wanda Coleman. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
