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

Amie has suffered a devastating loss

and Nairobi to New Orleans

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

the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold

she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere

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