Black Life
April 2010
Trade Paperback · 77 Pages
$14.00 U.S. · $15.50 CAN · £9.99 U.K. · €9.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781933517438
Wave Books
Trade Paperback · 77 Pages
$14.00 U.S. · $15.50 CAN · £9.99 U.K. · €9.99 E.U.
ISBN 9781933517438
Wave Books
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Description
You are born and it is to a black life
Full of abuse and strange things …
In her brazen second collection, Dorothea Lasky cries out beyond prophecy and confession, through to an even more powerful empathy. On the verge of becoming pure substance and sensation, Black Life is emotion recollected not in tranquility, but in radically affirming intensity.
I leave and I am a black life …
And I want to
Be what you made me to be
Dorothea Lasky is the author of two collections of poetry. Educated at the University of Massachusetts, Washington University, and Harvard University, she currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Full of abuse and strange things …
In her brazen second collection, Dorothea Lasky cries out beyond prophecy and confession, through to an even more powerful empathy. On the verge of becoming pure substance and sensation, Black Life is emotion recollected not in tranquility, but in radically affirming intensity.
I leave and I am a black life …
And I want to
Be what you made me to be
Dorothea Lasky is the author of two collections of poetry. Educated at the University of Massachusetts, Washington University, and Harvard University, she currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
About the Author
Dorothea Lasky is the author of two collections of poetry, AWE and Black Life (both published by Wave Books), and numerous chapbooks. She has been educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard University and Washington University. She currently teaches in the Executive Program in Work-Based Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania.