Lewis, Robin Coste.

Voyage of the Sable Venus and other poems / Robin Coste Lewis. - First edition. - 142 pages ; 25 cm

"This is a Borzoi book."

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 -- FeÌliciteÌ

9781101875438 (hardcover) 9781101911204 (trade pbk.)

2014047762


African American women--Poetry.


American poetry.

PS3612.E98 / A6 2016

811/.6