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Vixen
Cherene Sherrard’s poetry collection Vixen takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity. She asks her readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens, and the star on stage. In powerful, finely crafted lines, Sherrard’s poems interrupt and redirect the conversation.

Sherrard’s voice-driven poems are accessible to any reader interested in work that examines racial and black female representation within a historical, cultural, and artistic framework.

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Vixen
Cherene Sherrard’s poetry collection Vixen takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity. She asks her readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens, and the star on stage. In powerful, finely crafted lines, Sherrard’s poems interrupt and redirect the conversation.

Sherrard’s voice-driven poems are accessible to any reader interested in work that examines racial and black female representation within a historical, cultural, and artistic framework.

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Vixen

Vixen

by Cherene Sherrard
Vixen

Vixen

by Cherene Sherrard

Overview

Cherene Sherrard’s poetry collection Vixen takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity. She asks her readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens, and the star on stage. In powerful, finely crafted lines, Sherrard’s poems interrupt and redirect the conversation.

Sherrard’s voice-driven poems are accessible to any reader interested in work that examines racial and black female representation within a historical, cultural, and artistic framework.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938769214
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Publication date: 09/07/2017
Pages: 72
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Originally from Los Angeles, CHERENE SHERRARD currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and African American literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a graduate of the Cave Canem Summer Workshops, a recipient of many fellowships and awards, and her fiction and poetry have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals. Her poetry chapbook, Mistress Reclining (2010), won the New Women’s Voices Award.

Table of Contents

FOREST
Love in the Time of the Machete
One Moment She Was There and the Next
Cotillion
Beauty Mark
Egyptland
Voice is Not My Instrument
Wild Man
Beadwork
Cameo
Our Ariel
Nightmare Chronicles
Lady with a Lamppost
In Commemoration of Convalescence
Hag-Ridden
The Dictator's Wife, or Mildred Aristide Prepares to Address the Congressional Black Caucus
Residual
THE SEDITIOUS SAGA OF ANNABELLE X AS TOLD TO THE ABOLITIONIST MRS. SARABETH CLARKE OF ROCHESTER NEW YORK, IN NINE PARTS
The Meet Awful
Annabelle
The Fine Print
Duel
Chivalry
Peals of Bell-Shaped Laughter
Master Bode
Pleading the Belly
Nostalgia
SNARES
The Holy Cathedral at Toledo as Praise Shack
Zoraya's Lament
Weep Like a Woman for What You Could Not Hold as a Man
Forbid Rosemary
Our Lady of the Orange Trees
White City
Iruña
Castle of Olives
Seeking: Must Love Sidewalk Chalk
Look Away!
Extravagant Colors Not Found in Nature
Sustainability
Covenant
What We Know of Pristine
Cooking with Glass
Between Pickled Pears and Preserved Peaches I Find
Blood-Red Velvet with Scream Please, Frost Me
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

What People are Saying About This

Chana Bloch

“Cherene Sherrard’s Vixen is one of the most stunning debut collections of recent years. Historically resonant and urgently contemporary, Cherene Sherrard’s work interrogates the raw, shifting, and corrosive narratives of racial identity that her poems unravel in multiple cultural iterations. Her speakers are dazzling and her lines crackle with her powerful and incisive intelligence. Vixen is a book I keep returning to again and again for both its wisdom and its passionate dramatic brilliance.” —David St. John

David St. John

“Cherene Sherrard’s Vixen is one of the most stunning debut collections of recent years. Historically resonant and urgently contemporary, Cherene Sherrard’s work interrogates the raw, shifting, and corrosive narratives of racial identity that her poems unravel in multiple cultural iterations. Her speakers are dazzling and her lines crackle with her powerful and incisive intelligence. Vixen is a book I keep returning to again and again for both its wisdom and its passionate dramatic brilliance.”

Evie Shockley

“Vixen is a sharp knife elegantly sheathed in velvet, leather, and lace. What I mean is: the language is precise and pointed; the poetry's graceful forms contain superb surprises; and the lives that take shape in Cherene Sherrard's skilled and generous hands are richly textured, gorgeously various. Every word a sensation, every line a hard-earned luxury: this book leads us away from safety into worlds that black women learn to navigate through vexatious, merciless experience. Follow Sherrard into vixen country and get versed in its ‘iridescent mayhem.’ ”

Yona Harvey

“How does a woman reimagine the world and cast herself anew in it? Vixen prompts such reconsideration—beginning with its title. How one feels and how one is pressured to feel frequently compete with one another. Sherrard gives voice to a much needed resistance. Her poems quietly amass their humor, affections and preoccupation with film, music, history—and the loveliest textures and colors. What a multifarious gathering of voices in this book. They don't compete so much as question. We are all the better for hearing them.”

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