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005			20160104135211.0
008			150106t20152015nyu 000 p eng
010			_a2014047762
020			_a9781101875438 _qhardcover
020			_a1101875437 _qhardcover
020			_z9781101911204 _qtrade paperback
020			_z1101911204 _qtrade paperback
020			_z9781101875445 _qelectronic book
035			_a(OCoLC)899488683
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050	0	0	_aPS3612.E98 _bA6 2015
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100	1		_aLewis, Robin Coste, _eauthor. _97297
240	1	0	_aPoems. _kSelections.
245	1	0	_aVoyage of the Sable Venus : _band other poems / _cRobin Coste Lewis.
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_ax, 142 pages ; _c25 cm.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book."
505	0		_aPlantation -- 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 Chrisitainity -- 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 -- Felicite.
520			_a"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 construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, 'Voyage of the Sable Venus,' a riveting 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 autobiographical poems, 'Voyage' is a tender and shocking study of the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, as it juxtaposes our names for things with what we actually see and know. Offering a new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin-five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role has art played in this ancient, often heinous story? From the 'Young Black Female Carrying / a Perfume Vase' to a 'Little Brown Girl / Girl Standing in a Tree / First Day of Voluntary / School Integration,' this poet adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire and how they define us all, including herself, as she explores her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race-a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts." from publisher's website.
650		0	_aAmerican poetry _y21st century. _97298
655		7	_aPoetry. _2lcgft. _97299
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