num_pages: 144
description: A dazzling exploration of the intimate and public landscapes of passion from the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. In haiku, tanka, and sensual blues, Sonia Sanchez writes of the many forms love burning, dreamy, disappointed, vulnerable. With words that revel and reveal, she shares love's painful beauty.
language: English
title: Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems
titlecomplete: Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
genres: Poetry, African American
ratings_count: 491
publisher: Beacon Press