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    These Women You Gave Me
    These Women You Gave Me
    These Women You Gave Me
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    These Women You Gave Me

    By Antoinette Brim

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    Antoinette Brim’s These Women You Gave Me brings front and center Biblical mythology and legend to prove a truth that can only be proven through poetry. Brim’s poems sing of the ability women have always had to love and thrive in spite of the most oppressive odds, or as Brim herself would say, “His heavy breath filled her

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndolent Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2017
    ISBN9781945023064
    These Women You Gave Me
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    Antoinette Brim

    Antoinette Brim is the author of Icarus in Love (Main Street Rag, 2013) and Psalm of the Sunflower (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2010). She is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies, including Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series; Everyman's Library, 2012), edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali; Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander (FreedomSeed Press, 2013), edited by Ewuare X. Osayande; Critical Insights: Alice Walker (Salem Press, 2012), edited by Nagueyalti Warren; 44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the 44th President of the United States (Third World Press, 2011), edited by Lita Hooper, Sonia Sanchez, and Michael Simanga; The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent (Haymarket Books, 2017), edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff.

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      These Women You Gave Me - Antoinette Brim

      TheseWomen.jpg

      Also by Antoinette Brim

      Icarus in Love

      Psalm of the Sunflower

      These women

      you gave me

      Antoinette Brim

      INDOLENT-LOGO%20OK.png

      © 2017 Antoinette Brim

      Cover art: BWR (black, white, red) naked #04 by Frédéric Glorieux

      licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

      Book design: Nieves Guerra

      Published by Indolent Books,

      an imprint of Indolent Art Foundation, Inc.

      www.indolentbooks.com

      Brooklyn, New York

      ISBN: 978-1-9450-2305-7

      ePub ISBN: 978-1-945023-06-4

      Contents

      Delicate Ruin: Lilith’s Lament

      Lilith to Adam

      Lilith to Eve

      Lilith swears to spare Adam’s seed

      Lilith laments her lost children

      Lilith petitions God

      Lilith taunts the righteous

      In her image

      Lilith muses aloud

      Lilith dreams

      Lilith lost in tlun (or snow that sparkles in the moonlight)

      Lilith meditates on the blue sound

      Lilith away

      Eden’s Interlude: Clay & Bone

      Watch Woman 

      That

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