![]() ![]() ![]() She is currently at work on two new collections, To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness and Prosthetic, both of which are forthcoming from Knopf. In 2018, MoMA commissioned both Lewis and Kevin Young to write a series of poems to accompany Robert Rauschenberg’s drawings in Thirty-Four Illustrations of Dante’s Inferno (MoMA, 2018). Lewis’s writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies, such as Time Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Transition, and Best American Poetry. The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Buzz Feed, and Entropy Magazine all named Voyage one of the best poetry collections of the year Flavorwire named the collection one of the 10 must-read books about art and Literary Hub named Voyage one of the “Most Important Books of the Last Twenty Years.” Critics called the collection “A masterpiece…” “Surpassing imagination, maturity, and aesthetic dazzle…” “formally polished, emotionally raw, and wholly exquisite” “remarkable hopefulness…in the face of what would make most rage and/or collapse.” Voyage of the Sable Venus was also a finalist for LA Times Book Prize, the Hurston-Wright Award, and the California Book Award. In 2015, her debut poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus (Knopf) won the National Book Award in poetry––the first time a poetry debut by an African American had ever won the prize, and the first time any debut had won the award since 1974. Robin Coste Lewis is the poet laureate of Los Angeles.
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