Black Life Author:Dorothea Lasky 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 radica... more »lly affirming intensity. I leave and I am a black life . . .
And I want to
Be what you made me to beDorothea 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.« less