The Subtle Art of Breathing: New Poems by Asha Bandele - Softcover

Bandele, Asha; Medina, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965830888 ISBN 13: 9780965830881

Publisher: Moore Black Pr, 2005

Synopsis

"Asha writting has an ease and urgency, welcome and necessary. Her story is at once highly particular and universal. Her courage to love is heroism without pertension." Mos Def

About this title

About the Author:

In the rich heritage of writers like Audre Lorde and June Jordan, award-winning author/activist asha bandele penned her first collection, Absence in the Palm Of My Hands (Harlem River Press, 1996). Nine years later, bandele returns home to poetry with her second powerful, highly anticipated collection of work, The Subtle Art of Breathing (Moore Black Press 2005) asha has read her poems across the United States and abroad. She is a loved and important voice among many of her contemporries, such as Kevin Powell, Tony Medina, Willie Perdomo and Ras Baraka. In 1999, Scribner relased the The Prisoner's Wife, a best-sellling and award-winning memoir and love story, and a novel Daughter in 2003, winner of Black Issues Book Review's Best Urban Fiction Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Moore Black Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0965830888
• ISBN 13: 9780965830881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 69