Critical Review by John D. Williams
SOURCE; "The Pain of Women, The Joy of Women, The Sadness and Depth of Women," in Callaloo, Vol. 2, No. 5, February, 1979, pp. 147-49.
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In the following essay, De Lancey asserts that "As [Sanchez textualizes the form, forging her Afrocentric vision and Afrocentric structure within the discipline of the haiku form, she moves clo...
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In the following essay, Jennings describes Sanchez's aesthetics and asserts that her work has "inscribed the humanity of black people."
As a poet, Sonia Sanchez has evolved sin...
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Criticism
Clark, Sebastian. "Sonia Sanchez and Her Work." Black World 20, No. 8 (June 1971): 41-8, 96-8.
Discusses the main themes found in Sanchez's poetry and asserts that ...
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In the following review, Salkey discusses the poems from Sanchez's I've Been a Woman and describes her poetry "as songs of difficult truth and harsh beauty."
The title o...
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In the following essay, Williams analyzes the changes that have occurred in Sanchez's poetry from her first collection, Homecoming, to her I've Been a Woman, including a new sense of roo...
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In the following essay, Curb discusses Sanchez's revolutionary plays and states that the plays "dramatize the need for active cooperation among black women in political struggle for sexu...
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In the following interview, Sanchez discusses her poetry and the development of her career.
[Leibowitz:] Do you think there is a feminine sensibility which differs conspicuously from that of the ma...
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In the following interview, Melhem provides an introduction to Sanchez's career, which is followed by an interview in which Sanchez discusses the influences, themes, and forms of her work.
D...
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In the following essay, Saunders analyzes the techniques Sanchez employed in Homegirls and Handgrenades which are reminiscent of those Jean Toomer used in Cane.
It is appropriate when analyzing a w...
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In the following review, Anderson asserts that "the poems in [Sanchez's Under a Soprano Sky are tempered and configured to scorching extremes, they are, simultaneously, her most introspe...
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In the following essay, Garbin discusses the themes of Sanchez's works in terms of what she calls "Sanchez's strong Southern imagination, one that was born in the impressionable t...
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Critical Review by John D. Williams
