Winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

"Coleman is a poet whose angry and extravagant music, so far beyond baroque, has been making itself heard across the divide between West Coast and East, establishment and margins, slams and seminars, across the too-American rift among races and genders, for two decades. She excels in public performance...but her poems do not require her physical presence: they perform themselves."--Marilyn Hacker, from the jury's citation for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

Author: Wanda Coleman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.89w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781574230642


Award: 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Winner - Poetry


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/29/1998 pg. 54

About the Author
Coleman, Wanda: -

Wanda Coleman--poet, storyteller and journalist--was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Coleman was awarded the prestigious 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine from the American Academy of Poets, becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the prize, and was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for Mercurochrome. In 2020, poet Terrance Hayes edited and introduced a selection of her work, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems, the first new collection of her work since her death in 2013.