This Is Not a Small Voice

Praise for Sonia Sanchez * - * The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well -- Chinua Achebe Sonia Sanchez’s illustrious career spans seven decades. Her commanding oeuvre continues to elevate language’s ability to give voice to entire communities (their daily pleasures and pains) inside our shared and troubled history -- Claudia Rankine Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty -- Isabel Allende A lion in literature's forest... This world is a better place because of Sonia Sanchez: more livable, more laughable, more manageable. I wish millions of people knew that some of the joy in their lives comes from the fact that Sonia Sanchez is writing poetry -- Maya Angelou You have spoken for us . . . Written for us . . . Sung to us . . . How much in your debt we are -- Toni Morrison Her songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; her praise songs thunder and revitalize. We need these songs for our journey together into the next century -- Joy Harjo, former US Poet Laureate Sonia Sanchez’s poetry is a must for all readers. Period * Essence * For over 60 years, Sanchez has helped redefine the landscape of American politics and literature… one of the greats in American poetry * NPR *