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Black Swan

Black Swan

Poetry

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Authors: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"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.