Voyage of the Sable Venus : and other poems /
"A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the constr...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Plantation
- On the road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari
- Mother Church No. 3
- verga:
- The Wilde woman of Aiken
- The mothers
- From: To:
- Beauty's nest
- Red all over
- Dog talk
- Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man
- Summer
- Voyage of the Sable Venus. Prologue: ; The ship's inventory ; Invocation : blessing the boat ; Catalog I : ancient Greece & ancient Rome ; Catalog 2 : ancient Egypt ; Catalog 3 : the womb of Christianity ; Catalog 4 : Medieval colonial ; Catalog 5 : Emancipation & independence ; Catalog 6 : modern, civil, right ; Catalog 7 : modern post ; Catalog 8 : the present/our town ; Notes
- Frame
- Art & craft
- Lure
- The body in August
- Second line
- Pleasure & understanding
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