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“Wanda Coleman’s peerless Wicked Enchantment is packed with more American Sonnets than I’ve been able to gather in one spot and a sparkling intro by her champion Terrance Hayes. Words to crack you open & heal you where it counts—hateful & hilarious, heartbroke & hellbent, psychologically & formally adroit. All honor to her name.”

—Mary Karr, The Liars’ Club

“A powerhouse in her time, Coleman’s work resonates in ever greater measure, in forms as diverse as blues and sonnets, making a song and sense out of suffering.”

—Kevin Young, Brown: Poems

“She taught me everything I know about sourcing female rage and intuition in writing.”

—Amber Tamblyn, Era of Ignition

“Coleman is master of telling unvarnished truths—about self, about the world, about personal past and our collective future . . . Race, disparity and the increasing complexity of race politics in this country are the knots Coleman works through on the page.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Coleman’s ability to simultaneously conjure the tactile and the abstract makes her works crackle with life and inspire multiple interpretations . . . Coleman’s aching and meditative poetry gives voice to inquiries and echoes.”

—Booklist

“A poet whose angry and extravagant music, so far beyond baroque, has been making itself heard across the divide between West Coast and East, establishment and margins, slams and seminars, across the too-American rift among races and genders . . .”

—from the jury’s citation for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine

“Wanda Coleman’s poetry stings, stains, and ultimately helps heal . . . these searing, soaring poems challenge us to repair the fractures of human difference . . .”

—from the jury’s citation for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for Mercurochrome (finalist)