Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems Binding:Paperback Ancrum performs a confident high-wire

Ancrum performs a confident high-wire act

Born to a white mother and an absent black father

she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere

Genesis actually likes her new school

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

Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems Binding:Paperback Ancrum performs a confident high-wireThis 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