Sonia Sanchez

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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.

The difference faces of Sonia SanchezShe 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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14 Books by Sonia Sanchez