Offerings of Desire

by Kelly Norman Ellis

Poetry. African American Studies. "In Kelly Norman Ellis's long-awaited second collection, a grand cinema of black life is honey-beamed and balanced on a 'nipple of coal.' Somewhere in the middle of turning these pages, the reader will helplessly rise and mercilessly hunt for dirty rice and Bill Withers. It is indeed the poet's job to save something, but Ellis does more she swears to paper a luscious book so rich with black zest and drylongso that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985287713
• ISBN13: 9780985287719
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Willow Books/Aquarius Press
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"