Published in 2012 (first published 1999)
157 pages
Sonia Sanchez is poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. Her numerous honors include the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award. She is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.
What is this book about?
An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.
