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Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez explores the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives: an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape, the murder of a woman by her granddaughter, the ravages of drugs. Sanchez transforms the unspoken and sometimes violent betrayals of our lives into a liberating vision of connection in emotional redemption, compassion, and self-fulfillment. Publishers Weekly Sanchez (Under a Soprano Sky), along with Nikki Giovanni, was a major player in the early 1970s as African American women began to explore feminist, political and cultural issues in poetry. Focusing on performance as an integral aspect of craft, Sanchez prepared the way for such writers as Ntozake Shange. Much of this book (her first in eight years) pays back debts; in a mixture of poetry and prose, she commemorates a quarter century of Essence magazine and offers memorial pieces for James Baldwin and Malcolm X. Sanchez is at her best, however, when she places her speaker in the furious center of criminal action: a raped woman's detailed account of her attack, a woman trading her seven-year-old daughter for crack (``he held the stuff out/ to me and i cdn't remember/ her birthdate i cdn't remember/ my daughter's face''). A brilliant narrative is offered in the voice of a Harlem woman struggling with (and eventually hammered to death by) her junkie granddaughter. After such emotion, Sanchez turns to a series of minuscule poems based on Japanese forms that blunt rather than intensify her breathless energy. (Apr.) Narrative Poetry, Haiku, And African-american Lyricism Confront The Themes Of Race And Gender And Explore A Granddaughter's Drug Addiction, A Husband's Infidelity, And A Rape Focusing On Bringing Hope And Healing Out Of Painful Situations. Wounded In The House Of A Friend -- Catch The Fire -- On The Occasion Of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary -- A Love Song For Spelman -- Poem -- A Remembrance -- Sweet Honey In The Rock -- Bullet Holes Of Resistance -- Love Song No. 3 -- Homegirls On St. Nicholas Avenue -- Introduction Of Toni Morrison, And Others, On The Occasion Of The Publication Of Her Book Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays On Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, And The Construction Of Social Reality -- Poem For July 4, 1994 -- This Is Not A Small Voice -- Like -- Eyewitness: Case No. 3456 -- Poem For Some Somen -- Improvisation -- South African Tanka. Sonia Sanchez. Here, in her first book in eight years, Sonia Sanchez offers a powerful exploration of personal and shared pain. With passion and precision, Wounded in the House of a Friend confronts issues of rape, race, and gender and grapples with the assault of emotions spawned by betrayals of the mind and spirit - a husband's infidelity, a rape, a granddaughter's drug addiction, the divisions invoked by racism. But this collection is much more than an anatomy of wounds; it is a praise song to the spirit of all people, a testament to the hope that is rebuilt after each private apocalypse. With her mastery of haiku, narrative poetry, and African-American lyricism, Sanchez releases the voices of unspoken pain, transforming the wounds into a healing path of self-fulfillment and liberation, opening the way to a recognition of a new self and renewed self-worth. An exploration ofthe pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Awardwinner. Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez writes of an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape, the murder of a woman by her granddaughter, the ravages of drugs. Sanchez transforms the unspoken and sometimes violent betrayals of our lives into a liberating vision of connection in emotional redemption, compassion, and self-fulfillment.