Sapphire, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-44626-2
With this much anticipated first novel, told from the point of view of an illiterate, brutalized Harlem teenager, Sapphire (American Dreams), a writer affiliated with the Nuyorican poets, charts the psychic damage of the most ghettoized of inner-city
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Sapphire, Author Serpent's Tail $10.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85242-327-8
In one of the strongest debut collections of the 90s, this black lesbian feminist presents a fusion of poetry and prose, interspersed with short stories. Not for the squeamish, Sapphire's imagery is so fierce that readers will want to spread out the
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Sapphire, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-679-44630-9
Sapphire became a semi-celebrity for the harsh poems of abuse and recovery in her first book, American Dreams; she then made waves for the huge advance on her novel Push. This second volume of verse finds her less aggressive, mixing her hostilities...
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Sapphire. Penguin Press, $25.95 (374p) ISBN 978-1-59420-304-6
Fifteen years and an Oscar-nominated movie adaptation have passed by since Push, and, with Precious long dead, Sapphire unfurls the story of her son, Jamal Abdul Louis Jones. Orphan Jamal winds up at a foster home where he's mocked and beaten to the
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