Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is a 4-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author
Sonia Sanchez was Voted the #41 Favorite Author of the 20th Century
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) is a prolific writer, serious, and original. Her poems depict the struggles between black people and white people, between men and women, and between cultures.
She is innovative in her use of language and
structure, sometimes using Black speech in her poetry. She too has a brilliant sense of
history, and a vision of her people being truly free. "right on: white america"
is one of her best poems. America, she writes, was once ’a pio/neer land’, but it had
systematically eliminated through intolerance all those that it saw different. Thus,
"there ain’t ./no mo/ indians’, ’no mo real/white allamerican/bad/guys. The only ones
left now are the black people and they had better ’check out’, for the guns and shells are
falling to decimate them and a bleak future awaits them unless they do something about it.
Sanchez is a recent recipient (2001) of the Robert Frost medal in poetry. One of the highest honors awarded to a nationally recognized poet. One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement; Sanchez is the author of sixteen books and lives in Philadelphia.
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