Nappy Edges - Softcover

Ntozake Shange

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413153606 ISBN 13: 9780413153609

Publisher: Methuen & Co. Publishing -, 1987

Synopsis

nappy edges collects poetry and poetic prose by "a writer of unusual power and resonance . . . A leading black poet [who] ranks [with] Giovanni, Baraka, Brooks, and Hughes" (Emery Lewis, The Record). Indeed, nappy edges is "extraordinary and wonderful [in its] lyric, tragic exploration into black women's loneliness . . . [Shange] writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her" (Clive Barnes, The New York Times).

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About the Author

NTOZAKE SHANGE is a renowned playwright, poet, and novelist. Her works includes Some Sing, Some Cry, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo and Liliane. Among her honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of Barnard and recipient of a Masters in American Studies from University of Southern California, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Review

& She Bleeds
& Then
Advice
Between A Dancer & A Poet
Chicago In San Francisco & You
Closets
Cross Oceans In My Heart
De Poems Gotta Come Outta My Crotch?
Ego
Elegance In The Extreme
Expiriese Girl Wanted
Fame On All Fours
Five
Flying-song
For All My Dead & Loved Ones
For Marian
Frank Albert & Viola Benzena Owens
Get It & Feel Good
Hands & Holding
I Had Five Nose Rings
I Live In Music
I Talk To Myself
I'm Not Very Communicative
In Honor Of Yr Poise In The Face Of Hungry Lions
Inquiry
An Invitation To My Friends
Its Happenin/but You Dont Know Abt It
Just As The Del Vikings Stole My Heart
Latin Night Is Monday
Lotsa Body & Cultural Heritage
Love & Other Highways
Lovin You Is Ecstasy To Me
Marine Instruction
My Father Is A Retired Magician
Nappy Edges (a Across Country Sojourn)
Night Letter #3
No Gusts Of Wind Tickle Me
Oakland In February
Odessa
An Ol Fashion Lady
The Old Men Meet
On Becomin Successful
One More Poem For Dolphy
Resurrection Of The Daughter
Senses Of Heritage
Serious Lessons Learned
Several Propositions In The Middle Of The Nite
The Suspect Is Black & In His Early 20's
Takin A Solo - A Poetic Possibility - A Poetic Imperative
Telephones & Other False Gods
Things I Wd Say
This Woman Thinks We're De Beavoir & Jean Paul
Tropical Dance
Where The Mississippi Meets The Amazon
Whispers With The Unicorn
Who Am I Thinkin Of
Who Is Setting These Priorities?
With No Immediate Cause
Wow - Yr Just Like A Man!
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen & Co. Publishing -
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0413153606
• ISBN 13: 9780413153609
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160