![]() There is passion, precision and metre-try reading it out loud and you will feel it. ![]() The language used in the cataloging of the art might appear to be random and specious, however it is anything but that. The initial impression is beauty and precision, but upon closer examination there is something else in the poetry and the visual work of the two artists. Her poetic storytelling of history and its portrayal in art is reminiscent of the visual works of Kara Elizabeth Walker. This is a complex work, which compels and shocks by the very nature of the historical artwork that is referenced. Her poetic technique catalogs art work that often extolled and rhapsodized the sexuality of black females. ![]() Robin Coste Lewis, Los Angeles Poet Laureate, has used all of these characteristics of poetry to examine the artistic representation of black female enslavement through the millenniums. ![]() Poetry is the most intense and concentrated form of writing, using words, metre, rhyme and format to express thoughts, feelings and stories that can be fact or fiction. ![]()
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