by S Sapphire Sapphire (Author)
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.
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.