Shake Loose My Skin (9 page)

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© 1999 by Sonia Sanchez
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sanchez, Sonia, 1935—
Shake loose my skin : new and selected poems / Sonia Sanchez.
p. cm.

e-ISBN: 978-0-8070-6889-2
ISBN
978-0-8070-6853-3 (pbk.)
1. Afro-American women—Poetry.
2. Afro-Americans—Poetry.
I. Title.
PS3569.A468S53 1999
811’.54—dc21
98-41371