Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak) Paperback – January 1, 1999

because sonia sanchez reminds us that the haiku is a poem. that there can be depth and love and promise in the haiku. if you're into longer pieces, shake loose my skin may be best for you but i thoroughly enjoyed this book.

This collection of poetry is worthy of attention. I get the feeling that I will read and reread them for a lifetime and continuously find something new.

Raw, beautiful, frank. Poems about love, pain, loss, desire. Sonia Sanchez at her best!

A great collection of stories by a wonderful poet.

Wife loves it!

She's a phenomenal writer. But was expecting more. Was just ok.

sonia sanchez has been around long enough for her poems to speak for themselves.these are love poems in various forms. short japanese forms, the haiku, sonku, tanka, and blues haiku like: you too slippery/ for me, can’t hold you long or/ hard, not enough nites.some longer forms, entitled merely, poems, one of them begins:Good morning, sex. How do you do?Tell me how life’s been treating you.You say what? Sex is and sex ain’tsex wuz and sex wuzn’tsex should be and sex has beenon Times Square billboardson television, in the movies,in the lyrics dripping off pouting lips.You say sex is in the drinks we drinkthe laughs we laugh …in the section of the book entitled In This Wet Season, the objects of her love are the artists she’s known personally or through their works. longer poems. for ella fitzgerald:when she came on stage, this Ellathere were rumors of hurricanes andover the rooftops of concert stagesthe moon turned red in the sky,it was Ella, Ella.queen Ella had come ...the a cappella group, sweet honey in the rock, a couple of poems for tupac shakur, toni cade bambara, cornel west, and gwendolyn brooks:… you tell the nightto move gentlyinto morning so she’snot startled,you tell the morningto ease her into a waterfall of dreamsfor she is a holy one … .

If you love poetry, or even if your not sure but just love creativity this book is a must have!!! i have read it more than 100 times the poetry is moving, intense and beautiful, they are full of amazing images and it inspires me to write something new again everytime i pick it up and thumb through it. I leave it on my coffee table and anyone who picks it up, is instantly stuck to it.