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The World Falls Away

The World Falls Away Paperback / softback - 2011

by Wanda Coleman

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Paperback / softback. New. "In The World Falls Away, Wanda Coleman's poems glow with an almost radioactive edginess. Yet, there is also range and substance giving her intense American voice staying power. To use, Whitman's word, her work has 'amplitude.'" -Diane Wakoski
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  • Title The World Falls Away
  • Author Wanda Coleman
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Uncorrected Proo
  • Condition New
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
  • Date 2011-09-18
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780822961642
  • ISBN 9780822961642 / 0822961644
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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From the publisher

The burnings from which Coleman culls her work casts a glow and unique warmth that invites the reader to sit by her metaphorical hearth, to laugh and enjoy their \u201cconversation.\u201d The contemplative and philosophical have entered her voice as she continues to explore the conflicts and confusions that shape the aesthetic terrain of Southern California and beyond--as she continues to grapple with cultural bias, malignant domestic neglect, poverty, and the damages of racism, yet broadening her palette of social ills to include the privacies of grief, loss and transcendence. A nominee and finalist for Poet Laureate of California, she continues to reflect the ethnic scramble of Los Angeles, where she has been honored by proclamations from the city s elected officials, including the mayor s office, the city council and the Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2011, Page 12
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2011, Page 102

About the author

Wanda Coleman was a poet and writer from Los Angeles, California. Her numerous poetry collections included Mercurochrome: New Poems, nominated for the National Book Award; Bathwater Wine, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Ostinato Vamps; and The World Falls Away. She was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Emmy Award as a writer for Days of Our Lives.