American Dreams -- Sapphire

In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose. <p/>Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins gunned down by a Korean grocer, or a brutalized child who grows up to escape her probable fate through the miracle of art, Sapphire's vision in this collection of poetry and prose is unswervingly honest. <p/>"Stunning . . . . One of the strongest debut collections of the '90s."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br><b>Author:</b> Sapphire<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 06/18/1996<br><b>Pages:</b> 192<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.48lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.99h x 5.18w x 0.57d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679767992<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Sapphire is the author of <b>American Dreams</b>, a collection of poetry which was cited by <i>Publishers Weekly</i> as, "One of the strongest debut collections of the nineties." <b>Push</b>, her novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award, and, in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. <b>Push</b> was named by the <i>Village Voice</i> and <i>Time Out New York</i> as one of the top ten books of 1996. <b>Push</b> was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary