Mercurochrome

List Price: $31.95
Black Sparrow (Jul 01, 2001)
Poetry, Paperback, 270 pages
ISBN: 9781574231533Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Parent Company: David R. Godine, Inc.

Description of Mercurochrome

Coleman’s courageous, impassioned voice, defiantly affirming itself in the face of social injustice and institutional dehumanization, rings out clearer than ever in her new book, Mercurochrome. So does her sensuous, vivid, tactile “verbal mandala”:

love
as i live it seems more like mercurochrome
than anything else
i can conjure up. it looks so pretty and red,
and smells of a balmy
coolness when you uncap the little applicator.
but swab it on an
open sore and you nearly die under the stabbing
burn. recovery
leaves a vague tenderness…

These high-energy, incandescent poems turn up the emotional thermostat, sizzling and shooting off sparks.

Mercurochrome is categorized under the following categories. You can browse these categories to find other titles filed in the same way:

About Wanda Coleman

Read more about this author on their profile page: Biography of Wanda Coleman

Video Preview

Libro.fm Annual Membership Plan