Mahogany

"The third book in a trilogy revising the confessional, mahogany uses the music of Diana Ross as an emotive/sonic echo into which the poet sings the realities of being a grown, Black woman, losing everyone you ever loved, and still surviving, finding your calling and learning to love your beautiful, broken self"--

About the author

erica lewis (San Francisco, CA) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her books include the precipice of jupiter (2009, with artist Mark Stephen Finein), camera obscura (2010, with artist Mark Stephen Finein), murmur in the inventory (2013); and the first two books of the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend (2015) and mary wants to be a superwoman (2017).

Product details

• Authors: erica lewis
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9780819500762
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-0076-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 160 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 368 g
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry; Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies