Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez (jaiotza-izena Wilsonia Benita Driver; 1934ko irailaren 9a) poeta, narraziogile, saiakeragile, antzergi-egile eta haur-literaturako liburuen egile afroamerikarra da. Batez ere, Beltzen Artearen Mugimenduarekin lotu ohi da. Hainbat poesia-liburu, narrazio labur, saiakera kritiko, antzezlan eta haurrei zuzendutako literatura-lan idatzi ditu. 1993an Arteetako Pew Fellowships saria eman zioten. 2001ean, berriz, Robert Frost Domina eman zioten bere poesia-lanarengatik (AEBetan, poesiako saririk garrantzitsuenetakoa). Sonia Sanchezek eragina izan du beste emakume poeta afroamerikar batzuengan; esate batera, Krista Franklin poetarengan.

Lanak 
Poesia
 Homecoming (1969)
 We a Baddddd People (1970)
 Love Poems (1973)
 A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman (1974)
 Autumn Blues
 Continuous Fire: A Collection of Poetry
 Shake Down Memory: A Collection of Political Essays and Speeches
 It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs (1971)
 Homegirls and Handgrenades (1985)
 Under a Soprano Sky (1987)
 I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1985)
 Wounded in the House of a Friend (1995)
 Does Your House have Lions (1997)
 Like the Singing Coming Off of Drums (1998)
 Shake Loose My Skin (2000)
 Ash (2001)
 Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (2001)
 Morning Haiku (2010)

Antzerki-lanak 
 Black Cats and Uneasy Landings
 I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't (1982)
 The Bronx is Next (1970)
 Sista Son/Ji (1972)
 Uh Huh, But How Do It Free Us? (1975)
 Malcolm Man/Don't Live Here No More (1979)
 I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays (Duke University Press, 2010)

Narrazio laburren bilduma 
 A Sound Investment and Other Stories

Haur-literatura 
 It's a New Day (1971)
 A Sound Investment
 The Adventures of Fat Head, Small Head, and Square Head (1973)

Antologiak 
 We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans (1974)
 360 Degrees of Blackness Coming at Ya!
 Robert Bly, David Lehman, eds. (1999) The Best American Poetry, 1999
 Junot Díaz, ed. (2001). "A Poem for My Father". The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures
 Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, eds. (2006). "answer to yo / question of am i not yo / woman even if you went on shit again". The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry

Diskografia 
 A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry (Folkways Records, 1971)
 Every Tone a Testimony (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)

Erreferentziak

Kanpo-loturak 
 Official website
 Academy of American Poets
 Sonia Sanchez Biography at Voices from the Gap
 Joyce Joyce and John Reilly, Approaches to teaching Sonia Sanchez's poetry
 Sonia Sanchez Biography at Speak Out
 Sonia Sanchez article at the Heath Anthology of American Literature
 Sonia Sanchez's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project

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