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Jan 1, 2001 · The poems are politically aware, darkly humorous, sensual and iconoclastic, centered around the experience of life as a low-income black woman, and include themes of sexuality, anger, unhappiness, and sometimes hate and violence.
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Feb 1, 1979 · Mad Dog Black Lady Paperback – February 1, 1979. by Wanda. Coleman (Author) 5.0 3 ratings. See all formats and editions. This is the first book of poetry of Wanda Coleman, a freelance writer from Los Angeles who has published more than 20 books and was a 2005 finalist for California Poet Laureate.
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Wanda Coleman (November 13, 1946 – November 22, 2013) was an American poet. She was known as "the L.A. Blueswoman" and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles".
The talent she exhibited in her books Mad Dog Black Lady (1979) and Imagoes (1983) helped to garner her a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1981-82) and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry (1984). In 1987, she published Heavy Daughter Blues. a hybrid collection of short stories and poetry.
May 11, 2020 · Her first full-length book of poetry, “Mad Dog Black Lady,” appeared in 1979, and was followed by a dozen or so more, as well as short stories, essays, and a novel.
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Her first book of poetry, Art in the Court of the Blue Fag, was published in 1977. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 20 books including Mad Dog, Black Lady; Imagoes; Heavy Daughter...
Apr 21, 2021 · She’s been called many things: the L.A. Blueswoman, Mad Dog Black Lady, or “hateful and hilarious, heartbroken and hellbent,” as author/poet Mary Karr described Coleman’s Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems (Black Sparrow Press, 2020). No one should put a period at the end of your sentence. No one but you. — The Way They Feel.
