Voyage of the Sable Venus

This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" ( The New York Review of Books ) meditation on the black female figure through time. 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 ancie