mary wants to be a superwoman -

Erica Lewis

Third Man Books

2017

108 páginas

3h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780996401616

Being of black, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis’ poems recount her friends and family’s—especially the women's—complex history with race, gender, and class in America, what it means to live with your own history, and how to move on. Each poem is framed by phrases from the lyrics of Stevie Wonder’s Motown records, but the poems themselves are homages to her women kin, friends, and other contemporary women poets. And the dominant motif is brokenness.