{"product_id":"coleman-wanda-riot-insidpb","title":"Coleman, Wanda: The Riot Inside Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Sparrow Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 25, 2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Satire and journalism are alive and well in L.A., at least when Wanda Coleman is doing the biting and the reporting.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Riot Inside Me\u003c\/i\u003e once again finds the author at the crossroads where art and politics, the personal and the political, and L.A. and the larger world meet. The 26 pieces gathered here--a \"hopscotch\" of essays, memoirs, interviews, and reports--include a haunting memoir of her first husband, a moth drawn to the flames of the more extreme forms of '60s radicalism, and Coleman's now famous \"bad\" review of Maya Angelou's \"Song Flung Up to Heaven\"--\"the most controversial piece I've yet written\" - and a caustically funny report on its fallout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf this nonfiction collection, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e said: \"Coleman is best known for her 'warrior voice.' But her voice too can weep elegiac, summoning memories of childhood's neighborhoods - her South L.A.'s wild-frond palms, the smog-smear of pre-ecology consciousness. Her voice hits notes as desperate as Billie Holiday's tours of sorrow's more desolate stretches. But it can also land a wily punch line as solid as that of a stand-up comic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44243658211351,"sku":"9781574232004","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/images_e999df7a-7322-4023-a3cd-14c210a668db.jpg?v=1770327934","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/coleman-wanda-riot-insidpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}