Homegirls & Handgrenades (Celebrating Black Women Writers) Binding:Paperback she remains a marble figure

she remains a marble figure from the dim past

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

Paul Ortiz

a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help

Homegirls & Handgrenades (Celebrating Black Women Writers) Binding:Paperback she remains a marble figureWinner of the American Book Award A classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition "A lion in literature's forest. When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly." Maya Angelou Originally published in 1984, this collection of prose, prose poems, and lyric verses is as fresh and radical today as it was then. Sonia Sanchez, the premiere poet of the Black Arts Movement, shows the "razor