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Wanda Coleman


Born
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
November 13, 1946

Died
November 22, 2013

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Coleman was born Wanda Evans, and grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles during the 1960s. She received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The NEA, and the California Arts Council (in fiction and in poetry). She was the first C.O.L.A. literary fellow (Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2003). Her numerous honors included an Emmy in Daytime Drama writing, The 1999 Lenore Marshall Prize (for "Bathwater Wine"), and a nomination for the 2001 National Book Awards (for "Mercurochrome"). She was a finalist for California poet laureate (2005). ...more

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Wicked Enchantment: Selecte...

4.27 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions
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Mercurochrome

4.30 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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Heart First Into This Ruin:...

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4.29 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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Bathwater Wine

4.37 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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A War of Eyes: and Other St...

4.32 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
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The World Falls Away (Pitt ...

4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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African Sleeping Sickness: ...

4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems...

3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions
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Imagoes

4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions
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Ostinato Vamps: Poems (Pitt...

4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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“Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.”
Wanda Coleman, The Riot Inside Me: More Trials and Tremors
tags: poetry

“even my dreams have dreams”
Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

“only love could want this body
wanting guarantees love”
Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
tags: love

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