Experience the poetry of Wanda Coleman. Words to crack you open and heal you where it counts.--Mary Karr A voice the world needs--the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of work by the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles. A selection of Bustles Your National Poetry Month 2020 Required Reading List, discover why The Washington Post said, Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent.