Imagoes

Wanda Coleman is best known for what has often been termed her warrior voice Colemans poets voice too can weep elegiac, summoning memories of her childhoods neighborhoods her South LAs wild-frond palms, the smog smear of pre-ecology consciousness.Los Angeles Times In Imagoes, Wanda Coleman blends memory with the reality of her present through an idiom that oscillates seamlessly between natural imagery and the urban edifice of Los Angeles. Booklist called it: Hard, brilliant strokes shot through with street music.