Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis

Author:Robin Coste Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

Catalog 6:

MODERN, CIVIL, RIGHT

XIX.

Anonymous speaking at memorial for Four Negro Girls

killed in church bombing in Birming. Ham.

President Kennedy addressing the crowd: A Red Boo!

A Negro Boo! Young Girls being held

in a prison cell at the Leesburg

Stockade. Wounded, civil.

Rights demonstrators in the hospital

and on the street-burned-out-bus:

Bronzeville Inn Cabins for Coloreds. Here lies

Jim Crow drink Coca-Cola white.

Customers

Only!

:

Birth Treat Girl in Red,

The Two Paths:

What will The Girl become?

Preparing for school

and canvassing for votes:

The Breck Girl The New Black

South Uptown Woman

Scolding Her Companion Woman

Leaning on Radio Woman

Selling Earrings

in Front of Car Woman

with Laundry Bag on Top of Head

Two Negro Girls playing

with yarn and knitting

Needle at Harlem Playground

Three Negro Teenage Girls modeling

clothing for the Teen-Age Consumer

A-Go-Go Woman Holding Up

Spoon at Boy with Mask

who is scaring Young Girl

Negro Woman Peeling

Potatoes Girl in Dress with White Collar

New Jerusalem Women’s Rifle Team

at Howard University Integration

Crisis Woman and Daughter

with Children and 22 Million

Very Tired and Very Angry People

Women Marching

in Front of White House,

Crows Wait

Along the Funeral Route

Dancehall Queen Doing the Chaplin

Down the Flank

:

Anonymous Do Drop Inn

Blessed Sun Bathing Negress

Rent Day Beauty in the slums—

Clapping Christening Cleaning

Club Women Cooking Class

at the Benjamin Banneker!

The Green Chair People in a line.

Queens of the Boat hear animals dancing,

wrapping it up at the Lafayette:

Wannabes at the White Party

Gold Brick Inn Roseland

Asphalt Jungle.

Female Carnival Ride Primitive Girl,

The Boss pulling your own strings.

Humanity Servant, you’re fine, you’re hired.

Group Portrait in the Dark Tower:

Picture perfect painted toenails colonnade—

The Annotated Topsy Series, Untitled,

The Cow Jumped Over the Moan.

Let by gones be bygones, Hiawatha Woman

with Jug Grievin’ Hearted Full Blown Magnolia,

measuring and pacing Playland—Comrades!

The Sun God and the Poet

swinging in the park.

There were Colored People there:

In the background, The Pimp—

God’s Gift–to–Man

(He told her he wanted to

talk to her and she told him

he could talk all he wants to—).

Clara Mae angry

at Her Sister

and Her Husband.

Workers take the lead,

Midnight Benefit Show: The Screw

as Applied to the Cheese Press.

Me and Willie Mae, Ram Man, Tom Boy,

Moose Lady with a gentleman named Charles Bailey,

Models displaying printed leather shoes.

Tom Boy, Love Owl, Five Sorcerers, Seven

Faces of Eve—Little Miami Magic

People. On Such a Night as This

Unidentified Man Woman and Cat,

Unidentified Something

That Ain’t Been Born Yet.

Woman Power!

She’s Black, She’s Beautiful

She’s Smart, She’s Registered

She’ll Vote.

How about You?

Now Dig This:

Don’t Hate Me

Because I’m Beautiful

Untitled.

Somebody Paid the Price

for Your Right.

Register to Vote!

(You Don’t Bomb the People)

You Can Register Now!

No Reading or Writing

Necessary

Thenceforward

And Forever

Free—Thought

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Memento of the Occasion!

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