Wanda Coleman
Wicked Enchantment
Wicked Enchantment
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Winner, California Independent Bookseller Alliance 'Golden Poppy' Book Award 2020
"One of the best poetry collections of 2020. Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post
"A handsome volume that includes many of her terrifying and fearlessly inventive sonnets."--Cathy Park Hong, The New York Times
"How many other poets can you think of who can say: 'My anger knows no bounds--it's unlimited. I'm a big lady, I can stand up in front of almost any man and cuss him out and have no fear--you know what I'm sayin'? Because I will go to blows.' This is a big bold no-holds-barred American voice, and you'll need to buy this book, and read your favorite Wanda poems aloud--about Emmett Till, about her raggedy-ass old car, about giving birth, about South Africa, about her body and her dreams, about this country we all live in, as she did, seeing herself 'thrown heart first into this ruin.' "--David Gullette, The Arts Fuse
" Wicked Enchantment (Black Sparrow Press), edited by the American poet Terrance Hayes, has brought Coleman--who often seemed to relish the position of outsider--into the spotlight....Coleman's poems present, side by side, exasperation and joy. They both tally and transcend the difficulties of an often broke black woman, working in perhaps the world's least remunerative profession.....Yet few poets write so powerfully about the underground freedoms possible in an economy rigged to defeat them."--Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker
"In her unsettling and candid poems, Wanda Coleman challenged the rot of American racism.... Although Coleman was celebrated as a voice of her native Los Angeles (she was known as 'the L.A. Blueswoman'), her poetry does not reflect just Southern California but also Black lives across the United States....In Wicked Enchantment, Coleman's fans, new and old, will find some of her most vital challenges to American racism and its market-driven culture, rendered in her uniquely unsettling lyric voice."--Lizzy Lerud, Poetry Foundation
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"One of the best poetry collections of 2020. Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post
"A handsome volume that includes many of her terrifying and fearlessly inventive sonnets."--Cathy Park Hong, The New York Times
"How many other poets can you think of who can say: 'My anger knows no bounds--it's unlimited. I'm a big lady, I can stand up in front of almost any man and cuss him out and have no fear--you know what I'm sayin'? Because I will go to blows.' This is a big bold no-holds-barred American voice, and you'll need to buy this book, and read your favorite Wanda poems aloud--about Emmett Till, about her raggedy-ass old car, about giving birth, about South Africa, about her body and her dreams, about this country we all live in, as she did, seeing herself 'thrown heart first into this ruin.' "--David Gullette, The Arts Fuse
" Wicked Enchantment (Black Sparrow Press), edited by the American poet Terrance Hayes, has brought Coleman--who often seemed to relish the position of outsider--into the spotlight....Coleman's poems present, side by side, exasperation and joy. They both tally and transcend the difficulties of an often broke black woman, working in perhaps the world's least remunerative profession.....Yet few poets write so powerfully about the underground freedoms possible in an economy rigged to defeat them."--Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker
"In her unsettling and candid poems, Wanda Coleman challenged the rot of American racism.... Although Coleman was celebrated as a voice of her native Los Angeles (she was known as 'the L.A. Blueswoman'), her poetry does not reflect just Southern California but also Black lives across the United States....In Wicked Enchantment, Coleman's fans, new and old, will find some of her most vital challenges to American racism and its market-driven culture, rendered in her uniquely unsettling lyric voice."--Lizzy Lerud, Poetry Foundation
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