{"product_id":"wicked-enchantment-selected-poems-9781574232462","title":"Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColeman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWicked Enchantment: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a selection of 130 of her poems, edited and introduced by Terrance Hayes. Rejected by the elites during her lifetime, here's what people are saying now: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cb\u003eOne of the year's best  \"These poems are wildly fun and inventive . . . and frequently hilarious; they seem to cover every human experience and emotion.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Winner, California Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\"Required Reading\" \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--\"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A.\" \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e--One of the year's best  \"Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--\"Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she did.\"--\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA self-made writer from Black Los Angeles, Wanda Coleman made art while living every day with racism, poverty, violence. Her triumph is in words that endure. It's time for Coleman's courageous, impassioned, inspiring, one-of-a-kind voice to reach readers everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColeman, Wanda:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWanda Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e--poet, storyteller and journalist--was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was awarded the prestigious 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBathwater Wine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e from the American Academy of Poets, becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the prize, and was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMercurochrome\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWicked Enchantment: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is the first new collection of her work since her death in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHayes, Terrance:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e (editor) is the author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLighthead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (National Book Award winner) and, most recently, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Critics' Top Books of 2018)--both from Penguin Books. Hayes was awarded a MacArthur Genius Fellowship in 2014. Hayes served as the 2017-2018 poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and was guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2014. Hayes lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Sparrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607480996114,"sku":"9781574232462","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6aad563-ee84-484d-bf5c-e9fcf0e55585.jpg?v=1732308974","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wicked-enchantment-selected-poems-9781574232462","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}