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Wanda Coleman is the Most Out Poet There Is: pure language unreconstructed, dynamic performance hypnotic, juicy funny and mad as hello. Her Bathwater Wine (Black Sparrow, 1998) won a ‘99 Academy Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, breaking through the way she does. Her bountiful books from Black Sparrow wrench beauty and rock jazz from subtle tales of girlhood to full-tilt woman’s rage (somehow still subtle, yo).
Bob Holman Wanda’s Book Club All-time Top Ten
4 Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of The House of Usher 3 Nathanael West, The Complete Works 2 Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground 5 Ann Petry, The Street 1 Arthur Machen, “The White People” 7 William Hope Hodgson, The House on The Borderland 9 Amiri Baraka's Dutchman 10 Peter Bowman's Beach Red (novel in verse, Random House, 1945, now out of print) 6 Herman Melville's Billy Budd & Moby Dick 8 Cesar Vallejo's Trilce, David Smith English version (Grossman NY/Mushinska Tokyo, 1973, now out of print)  By Date | By Topic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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