The Love Project
A Marriage Made in Poetry
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2014
Book
Hardback
978-1-59709-733-8 (ISBN)
Description
There's plenty of love between Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus, but it has an edge: every kiss, every snuggle, every touch is political. How to make a marriage work under the unyielding pressures of racial bigotry and cultural bias? How to maintain their creativity and independence as poets and artists faced with the daily pressures of survival? For over three decades, Coleman and Straus have grappled with these questions-and with one another. Together, they have built a wall of desire, carnal and spiritual, to shield them from an often unwelcoming world. The Love Project sings their blood oath in an open and jazzy verse that holds nothing back, offering to the world some of the better that has flowered between them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pasadena
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59709-733-8 (9781597097338)
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Wanda Coleman was the author of the poetry collections Bathwater Wine, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Mercurochrome, a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as many other books of poetry, fiction, and essays. She won an Emmy Award as a writer for Days of Our Lives. A Los Angeles native, she lived there for many years with her husband, Austin Straus. She died in November, 2013. A poet and painter, Austin Straus is the author of the collections Drunk with Light and Intensifications, for which he also did the cover art. Born in Brooklyn, he has lived for many years in Los Angeles, many of them with his late wife, Wanda Coleman.