From Library Journal
Shange attempts to create a "verbal dialogue" with the works of various visual artists. Her dialogue is, she says in "Night Lightning," a "conversation that goes on all night long. . . . " She speaks to the works as she would "to a friend over coffee or champagne." While using the visual arts as a take-off point for writing is certainly not a new idea, Shange brings to these poems and prose pieces her unique style and way of seeing. Often what she sees seems to have more to do with her own sensibilities than it does with the visual illustrations that accompany the writingbut that writing is lively, sensuous, and, finally, interesting in its own right. Grace Bauer, formerly with New Orleans P.L.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Between The Two Of Them
Conversations With The Ancestors
Dream Of Pairing
For Vickie Miller
Gardenias On The Borderline
Irrepressibly Bronze, Beautiful And Mine
La Luta Continua
New Orleans Nuptials
Passages: Earth Space
Prologue: Night Lightning
Three Views Of Mt. Fugi
Who Needs A Heart
Wrapping The Wind
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Conversations With The Ancestors
Dream Of Pairing
For Vickie Miller
Gardenias On The Borderline
Irrepressibly Bronze, Beautiful And Mine
La Luta Continua
New Orleans Nuptials
Passages: Earth Space
Prologue: Night Lightning
Three Views Of Mt. Fugi
Who Needs A Heart
Wrapping The Wind
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
