Heart First into this Ruin

“Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit.”— Washington Post “Terrifying and fearlessly inventive.”— New York Times The first complete collection of Wanda Coleman’s original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give voice to loving passions, social outrage, and hard-earned wisdom. Wanda Coleman was a beat-up, broke Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and ruthl