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Chargement... Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poemspar Robin Coste Lewis
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Great. The central poem is a form that can easily go wrong in form over content, but this is very well done. ( ) This book is separated into three sections. The first and third are rather traditional poetry. The second, though. In the second section, Coste Lewis uses the descriptions on artwork featuring black female figures, and creates poems. She used descriptions from museums around the world (and cited at the end of the section). By arranging the phrases differently--into sentences, or by using similar phrases--the poems she creates vary greatly. This idea makes me think of both Travesty Generator and The Galleons: Poems, both longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. The third section features some poems having to do with Los Angeles and growing up in Compton. I read this book with the California Book Club, all of their previous choices have been set in California, so this one did not fit as well and was definitely not what I expected. Another book where a literary exercise is at the center, but Lewis pulls it off fairly convincingly. The poem that covers the various black Madonnas she's found (the exercise is using names and descriptions of art that depicts black women) is beautiful and some of the later ones didn't even feel like museum descriptions, though many of those were astonishingly beautiful. There was also a lot of embodiment thematics contrasted with a sustained interest in "Eastern" religions as well as embodiment as it tied in to motherhood. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"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"--Publisher's website. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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