Sonia Sanchez | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis & critique of Sonia Sanchez.

Sonia Sanchez | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis & critique of Sonia Sanchez.
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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.

In the following review, Williams asserts that the poems in Sanchez's I've Been a Woman speak for and to all women.

The Black Scholar Press has recently published a new book from Sonia Sanchez, and a powerful book it is indeed. A collection which includes a fine cross-section of Sanchez's earlier work as well as some of her latest poems, I've Been a Woman recounts the journey of one woman from the early stages of herself into the meaningfulness of herself as a woman and as a human being. One hears in the voice of this woman-poet the pain of women, the joy of women, the sadness and depth of women. The voice of this woman is pregnant with the voices of women, and ail readers...

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