Black Wings and Blind Angels

Black Wings and Blind Angels

by S Sapphire Sapphire (Author)

Synopsis

Alive with the emotional honesty and intellectual force for which Sapphire has been admired as both a writer and a performance artist, these forty-seven poems take us into America's past and present, bearing testimony to the black experience in a country fragmented by war, racism and urban and domestic violence. They tell the story of a search for the complicated spiritual path back to one's roots, a story of family, race, and self-transformation. At turns alarming and inspiring, the raw lyrics and piercing wisdom of Black Wings & Blind Angels remind us of Sapphire's place as a unique and fearless voice.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 07 Aug 2001

ISBN 10: 1841951013
ISBN 13: 9781841951010
Book Overview: Sapphire's novel, Push , won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award for 1997 and the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction.

Author Bio
Sapphire was born in 1950 and grew up on army bases in California, Pennsylvania and Texas. The author of American Dreams, a collection of poems, and the highly acclaimed novel Push, Sapphire lives in New York City.