Mercurochrome

Author: Wanda Coleman

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press (2001)

National Book Award in Poetry finalist, Mercurochrome is one of Coleman’s most powerful collections. With humor, anger, and sorrow, she captures the deeply personal and societal forces of a Black working woman and mother, always behind in rent, always writing. She captured her world and its truths with beauty, harshness, clarity, and power. Through it all, there is passionate love and sexuality, humor and drama—her work is full of startling confession and breathtaking power.