Black Venus Fly Trap

<p><strong>A shocking debut poetry collection that invites readers to grapple with the origins of a world that both hates and needs Black women. A disruptive hagiography of the Black Venus & Sapphire, mammy bulldaggers, and welfare queens, Rich's collection splendidly desecrates poetic elitism. <em>Black Venus Fly Trap</em> is an eldritch account of Black femininity simultaneously born from the chorus of refusal and unlike anything written before. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>"That frisson of realness, the unsayable that can be lost when we ask language to convey the infinite interiority of the black woman-<em>Black Venus Fly Trap</em> rescues it." - Doreen St. Felix</p><p><br></p><p>"Jeanetta Rich's writing doesn't sit on the page, it oozes over your psyche. Fearless and complex, defiant and radiant! I love it." - Kim Gordon</p><p><br></p><p>"Jeanetta Rich once told me that as a child she used to spend hours staring at a painting of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist. Black Venus Flytrap is like that paintin splendid and profane and entirely just. Jeanetta's writing turns each page into a museum of art and we are lucky to admire it. It's exquisite and it stings-which is how you know it's working." - Elaine Kahn</p>