The Black Feminine Mystique

A Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award Finalist

by William E. Waters


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Softcover
£8.49

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 12/12/2014

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 78
ISBN : 9781496958747

About the Book

The Black Feminine Mystique is a collection of poetry that celebrates women of color. It draws from mythology; from the many Black women heroines from history; from women living and dead; and from writers, artists, athletes, and women from the author’s life, including but not limited to his four sisters and his mother. The Black Feminine Mystique paints a broad stroke from Isis to Ida B. Wells, from Hagar in the Wilderness to Winnie Mandela, and from the so-called Hottentot Venus to Venus Williams. One writer said that miscegenation created fifty-five shades, which is part of the Black Feminine Mystique.


About the Author

William E. Waters is an award-winning poet, playwright, and author. His poetry has been in a number of anthologies and magazines, including Rattle and AIM. In 1998, he was the cowinner of the Edwin Mellen Poetry Prize for his epic poem, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present, published in 2000 by Edwin Mellen Poetry Press. He reissued this book in 2013 through AuthorHouse. He is also the author of Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, a National Poetry Series finalist, a collection of poetry about law enforcement excesses, which was published by AuthorHouse in 2013. Waters has a master’s degree from New York Theological Seminary and bachelor’s degrees from SUNY New Paltz and Albany University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.