Voyage of the Sable Venus Romantic Comedy but now he’s nearly back

but now he’s nearly back to his old self

and singularly beautiful” (NPR)

This is a major achievement

and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation

On Purpose

Voyage of the Sable Venus Romantic Comedy but now he’s nearly backThis 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 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. In the center of the collection is the title poem, Voyage of the Sable Venus, an amazing narrative made up entirely