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product_id: 61254525
title: "Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems"
brand: "ntozake shange"
price: "R473"
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# Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems

**Brand:** ntozake shange
**Price:** R473
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			        		&quot;These powerfully swinging, jabbing, lamenting, testifying, and protesting poems. . . coalesce in a galvanizing, timely, and timeless flow of creativity, valor, compassion, and wisdom.&quot; (Donna Seaman Booklist Review)&#x201C;Acclaimed poet, playwright, and novelist Shange, takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey through black womanhood in her first selected volume.The poems showcase vibrant narratives of black women who are neither solely saints nor sinners.&#x201D; &#xA0; (Publisher&#x2019;s Weekly Starred Review)&#x201C;Shange returns with powerful new poems&#x2026; drawn from the daily realities of black life. No poet since Langston Hughes has insisted so forcefully on black people&#x2019;s right to simply be&#x2026;&#x201D;&#xA0; (Washington Post)&#x201C;Vibrant enough to leave a mark. . . . Shange parses the beauty in cultural variation, music, womanhood, urban life and language.&#x201D; (New York magazine)
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Ntozake Shange is a renowned playwright, poet, and novelist. Born Paulette Williams in 1948, she received her Bachelor&#x2019;s degree from Barnard College and her Master&#x2019;s degree from the University of Southern California. Her works include the Broadway-Produced and Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Betsey Brown, Liliane, and Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
						    	
					    	
						
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*Last updated: 2026-02-15*