Jeanetta Rich: Black Venus Fly Trap

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. ‘Black Venus Fly Trap’ is an eldritch account of Black femininity simultaneously born from the chorus of refusal and unlike anything written before.