Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

by Robin Coste Lewis

Book Overview

Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present-titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101875437
• ISBN13: 9781101875438
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"