Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems Binding:Paperback Amie has suffered a devastating

Amie has suffered a devastating loss

A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck

Maya learns that love for herself

Born to a white mother and an absent black father

Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems Binding:Paperback Amie has suffered a devastatingThis 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