Coleman, Wanda: Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

Edited by Terrance Hayes (Black Sparrow Press, paperback) Publication Date: March 23, 2021 Publisher Marketing: "ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST! Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post. A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman.  Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems 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:  --"One of the best poetry collections of 2020."-- Washington Post  --" Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent." Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author --"One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A." The New Yorker --" Her work pushes us to confront injustice with as much candor as she d