Black Swan
Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem PrizeSelected by Marilyn NelsonFinalist, 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize"Imagine Leda black—" begins Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's exciting new collection of poems. Mixing vernacular language with classical mythology, modern struggles with Biblical trials, she gives voice to silenced women past and present.In Van Clief-Stefanon's powerful voice, last night's angry words "puffed / into the dark room like steam / punching through the thick surface / of cooking grits." She remembers a child's innocence "lost / in the house where I learned the red rug / against my chest, my knees / my tongue, . . . ." Black Swan is filled with pain, loss, hope, and the promise of salvation.
59 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 2002 by University of Pittsburgh Press · ISBN 9780822957874
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3 editions
English
- Black Swan · University of Pittsburgh Press · 2002 · ISBN 9780822957874 This page
- Black Swan · University of Pittsburgh Press · 2014 · ISBN 9781306554794
- Black Swan · University of Pittsburgh Press · 2002 · ISBN 9780822979678
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