Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors
- ISBN-10
- 1574230220
- ISBN-13
- 9781574230222
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- David R. Godine Publisher
- Author
- Wanda Coleman
Description
In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory".
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