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Article: The divine body in Grace Nichols's 'The Fat Black Woman's Poems.' (book)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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I am not your Venus de Milo perfectly sculptured from marble To be carefully pedestal placed My name is not Eve I offer no temptation I am not your concubine by night Transformed by memory by day I am not the milk you thirst for Now dry in your mother's breast . . . I am no slave to a promise written in ink When there is no master There are no chains to be broken Bondage is no glory I am Woman Bone of your Bones Flesh of your Flesh When I lay sleeping in your rib You called me no name
I am that I am
- Faybiene, from "I Am"
The Guyanese-born poet Grace Nichols is among a growing network of Afra-Caribbean writers who articulate their unique heritage of ...
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