Shake Loose My Skin New and Selected Poems

An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.

Sonia Sanchez is poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. Her numerous honors include the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award. she is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.

I. from I've Been a Woman 1978

Homecoming

3

(1)

Poem at Thirty

4

(2)

Malcolm

6

(2)

Personal Letter No. 2

8

(1)

A Poem for My Father

9

(1)

Peom No. 3

10

(1)

Blues

11

(1)

Haiku

12

(1)

Sequences

13

(3)

Haiku

16

(1)

Poem No. 8

17

(1)

Present

18

(2)

Tanka

20

(1)

Tanka

21

(1)

A Love Poem Written for Sterling Brown

22

(1)

Kwa mama zetu waliotuzaa

23

(6)

II. from Homegirls and Handgrenades 1984

``Just Don't Never Give Up on Love''

29

(6)

Ballad

35

(1)

After Saturday Night Comes Sunday

36

(11)

I Have Walked a Long Time

47

(2)

On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa.

49

(1)

On Seeing a Pacifist Burn

50

(1)

Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele

51

(6)

III. from Under a Soprano Sky 1987

Under a Soprano Sky

57

(2)

Philadelphia: Spring, 1985

59

(3)

Haiku

62

(3)

Dear Mama

63

(2)

Fall

67

(1)

Fragment 1

68

(1)

Fragment 2

69

(1)

Haiku

70

(1)

Towhomitmayconcern

71

(1)

Blues

72

(1)

Song No. 2

73

(2)

An Anthem

75

(2)

Graduation Notes

77

(4)

IV. from Wounded in the House of a Friend 1995

Wounded in the House of a Friend

81

(12)

Catch the Fire

93

(3)

A Remembrance

96

(5)

Poem for July 4, 1994

101

(5)

This Is Not a Small Voice

106

(1)

Like

107

(2)

Haiku 1

109

(1)

Haiku 9

110

(3)

V. from Does Your House Have Lions? 1997

Father's Voice

113

(14)

VI. from Like the Singing Coming off the Drums 1998

Dancing

127

(1)

Haiku

128

(1)

Tanka

129

(1)

Blues Haiku

130

(1)

Blues Haiku

131

(1)

Haiku

132

(1)

Love Poem

133

(6)

VII. NEW WORKS

Mrs. Benita Jones Speaks

139

(4)

Morning Song and Evening Walk

143

(5)

For Sweet Honey in the Rock

148

(3)

Aaaayeee Babo (Praise God)

151

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