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1641764Voyage of the Sable Venushttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/voyage-of-the-sable-venus-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/350032/2ab7bb91-90e8-461e-996c-b1dad86d39f3.jpg?v=638334348808930000251349MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (<em>The New York Review of Books</em>) meditation on the black female figure through time.</strong></p><p>Robin Coste Lewiss 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.</p><p>In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the presenttitles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewiss own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know.</p><p>A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly beginfive hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who 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 desirehow they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history.</p><p>Lewiss book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of racea full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.</p>...1619990Voyage of the Sable Venus251349https://www.gandhi.com.mx/voyage-of-the-sable-venus-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/350032/2ab7bb91-90e8-461e-996c-b1dad86d39f3.jpg?v=638334348808930000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20159781101875445_W3siaWQiOiJiY2E1Y2MwOS1iMTE1LTQ3OTYtYmJiOS1lMDhjZDY3YjRlYzYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMwNCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjcwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIzNCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781101875445_<p><strong>This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a powerfully evocative (<em>The New York Review of Books</em>) meditation on the black female figure through time.</strong></p><p>Robin Coste Lewiss 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.</p><p>In the center of the collection is the title poem, Voyage of the Sable Venus, an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the presenttitles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewiss own autobiographical poems, Voyage is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know.</p><p>A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly beginfive hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who 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 desirehow they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history.</p><p>Lewiss book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of racea full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.</p>...(*_*)9781101875445_<p><strong>This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (<em>The New York Review of Books</em>) meditation on the black female figure through time.</strong></p><p>Robin Coste Lewiss 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.</p><p>In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the presenttitles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewiss own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know.</p><p>A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly beginfive hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who 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 desirehow they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history.</p><p>Lewiss book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of racea full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.</p>...9781101875445_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_8afbda89-5a5f-354e-9600-0ab6d0da093c_9781101875445;9781101875445_9781101875445Robin CosteInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-0f8fc97a-ead6-43b3-9571-55567c98dd41.epub2015-09-29T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group