A review by godsgayearth
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis

5.0

I was going to give it four stars, but I read it once more and in my third reading, Pleasure & Understanding caught in my throat and it was a deal breaker.

Your desire is like that, Thief: the perfect crime.
You broke inside, but took nothing except
Pleasure's location, within the Temple of Understanding
(But I wanted to razed. I wanted to be plundered).