"Conversations with Sonia Sanchez" is a diverse collection of
engagements with poet, teacher, and activist Sonia Sanchez. While
it is common to associate Sanchez with the Black Arts Movement of
the 1970s, these interviews reveal that Sanchez is a poet whose
craft and subjects have evolved over three decades. The interviews
from 1979 to 2005 include a previously unpublished interview
conducted by the editor specifically for this book. Taken together,
the pieces illuminate Sanchez's conscious and consistent work at
honing her craft, her skill at raising the highly political to the
level of art, and her engagement with black studies and women's
studies.
In these interviews, we see how her travels, her career as a
teacher, and her work as a mother, as a political activist, and as
a cultural critic have changed her writing. Her experiences in
women's studies and her friendships with other artists--such as
Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Walker, Ngugi wa Thiong'o,
and Amiri Baraka--have all influenced her poetry.
Joyce A. Joyce is professor of English at Temple University. She
is the author of "Black Studies as Human Studies: Critical Essays
and Interviews"; "Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the African Poetic
Tradition"; "Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining
African-centered Literary Criticism," and other books.
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