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    Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
    Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
    Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
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    Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems

    By Ntozake Shange

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    NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work

    From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and extraordinary Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes “a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.

    In this stirring collection of more than sixty original and selected poems in both English and Spanish, Ntozake Shange shares her utterly unique, unapologetic, and deeply emotional writing that has made her one of the most iconic literary figures of our time.

    With a clear, raw, and affecting voice, Shange draws from her experience as a feminist black woman in American to craft groundbreaking poetry about pain, beauty, and color. In the bestselling tradition of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, Wild Beauty is more than a poetry collection; it is an exquisite call to action for a new generation of women, people of color, feminists, and activists to follow in the author’s footsteps in the pursuit of equality and understanding. As The New York Times raves, “Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9781501169953
    Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
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    Ntozake Shange

    Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) was born in Trenton, New Jersey and educated at Barnard College and the University of Southern California, where she received an MA in American Studies. Her choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf brought her Broadway success and international recognition. She is the author of an acclaimed adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children and has written three novels: Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo; Betsey Brown; and Liliane. Her poetry includes nappy edges, A Daughter's Geography, Ridin' the Moon in Texas and From Okra to Greens. Her first collection of plays was published by Methuen Drama in 1978.

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      I received an ARC as an unsolicited gift from a publisher because, apparently, I like to read (and comment) A LOT! My thanks to Bianca in Atria Marketing. This is a collection of poems which have been converted into Spanish and are on the opposite side of each poem so they can be compared visually. I was very impressed with this structure and it prompted me to go ahead and read it. My honest opinion: Well, I never read Ntozake Shange's writings before, and truthfully, I probably won't again. However, I did not walk away unfazed by her writings. She is hauntingly direct; using her prose to shockingly point out truths, hypocrisy, dreams, and fate. Sometimes vulgar, often bittersweet, she is sharp edged and sharp witted. Her syntax of slang and spelling brings the poems vibrancy that usually isn't conveyed into words. I am disturbed and honored to have read this. Kudos to the author. <> side note: I have passed this on to a bilingual friend who is already immersed in it.

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