Black Metamorphoses is an illustrated poetry collection by Shanta Lee that has been named a finalist in the 2021 Hudson prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Cowles Poetry Book Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Idaho poetry prize. Illustrations are the original creation of Alan Blackwell. Find out more about Black Metamorphoses by viewing the book trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0lr4krpZnA&t=4s
Black Metamorphoses is best described as piercing a 2000+ year-old veil connecting directly to Ovid's Metamorphoses through an interpretation, conversation and interrogation. Pulling from a range of myths, this manuscript rises above direct conversion of the work into the Black experience through inversion, bending, and taking brazen chances. What happens when the myth of Narcissus is revisited within the context of imperialism? How is a Ghanaian myth used to explore the power dynamic between the Black female body and colonialism? What happens when a whole group is stricken with a hunger that, when satiated, remains unquenchable while causing an unnamable, unquantifiable damage? What happens when colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy are internalized or become the backdrop against one's ancestral and current lived experience?
Join Shanta Lee at Antidote Books to learn more.
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