num_pages: 72
description: You are pure appetite. I am pureAppetite. You are a phantomIn that far-off city where daylightClimbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.--from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y"Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be."
language: English
title: The Body's Question
titlecomplete: The Body's Question
genres: Audiobook, African American, Female Authors, Poetry, Black Literature
ratings_count: 516
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Cave Canem Poetry Prize
publisher: Graywolf Press