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Bluest Nude by Ama CodjoeFinalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoes highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life. Codjoes poems explore how the archetype of the artist complicates the typical expectations of women: be gazed upon, be silent, be selfless, reproduce. Dialoguing with and

author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds

you’ll want to pinch yourself while reading

and that most intimate

”—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy

both intimate and ancestral

Manuel Paul López writes that it's "a vibrant collection populated with lives 'drinking carbon out of the sky

There he lived in the "shadow" of the Brooklyn Bridge (as he wrote to his friend Waldo Frank)

In language at once acute and emotional

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So Ruhl begins an intense decade-long search for a cure while simultaneously grappling with the reality of her new face—one that

And the wind returns

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world

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