“Wanda Coleman is best known for what has often been termed her ‘warrior voice’ … Coleman’s poet’s voice too can weep elegiac, summoning memories of her childhood’s neighborhoods – her South LA’s wild-frond palms, the smog smear of pre-ecology consciousness.”—Los Angeles Times
In Imagoes, Wanda Coleman blends memory with the reality of her present through an idiom that oscillates seamlessly between natural imagery and the urban edifice of Los Angeles. Booklist called it: “Hard, brilliant strokes shot through with street music.”
- ISBN10 0876855095
- ISBN13 9780876855096
- Publish Date 5 August 2010
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 169
- Language English