β Scribed by Sonia Sanchez
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach βexploding in the universe,β the βblue hallelujahsβ of the Philadelphia Murals, and the voice of Odetta βthundering out of the earth.β Sanchez sings the praises of contemporaries whose poetic alchemy turns βwords into gemsβ: Maya Angelou, Richard Long, and Toni Morrison. And she pays homage to peace workers and civil rights activists from Rosa Parks and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Brother Damu, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network. Often arranged in strings of twelve or more, the haiku flow one into the other in a steady song of commemoration. Sometimes deceptively simple, her lyrics hold a very powerful load of emotion and meaning.
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