Sometimes, these life experiences are unmanageably traumatic - presented in the only way their pain can be correctly measured: poetry.
Throughout the anthology, Sanchez espouses experimental form with poignant life experiences. It should come at no surprise that a collection of poems spanning more than half a century and over a dozen acclaimed poetry collections is as cohesive and bildungsroman-like as “Collected Poems” - but the immediate power and movement the poems evoke from the very start of the anthology are perhaps stronger than any of her other works individually because of the way they are arranged in this anthology. She became a torchbearer for the Black Arts movement, in which Black artists, writers, musicians and performers sought to redefine art so that it depicted Black people with realistic imagery and depth. As a result, her dramatic poetry recitations became a facet of her poetry that helped lead to widespread fame. In order to combat her stutter, Sanchez read her poetry out loud when she wrote it.
And although she studied political science, her writing voice and poetic style started developing during this period.
Among “hide and / seek faces peeling / with Freudian dreams,” poet Sonia Sanchez manages to rise above that facade and claim her own distinct voice in her new anthology, “Sonia Sanchez: Collected Poems.” In this accumulation of what seems to be a lifetime of picturesque and powerful anecdotes, Sanchez, a Hunter College alumna, travels through the incredibly dense landscape of her life.ĭuring her time at Hunter in the fifties, Sanchez was able to manage the stutter that she had grown up with.
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