Confessions of a Barefaced Woman

The poems in Allison Joseph’s latest collection are smart, shameless, and empowered confessions of the best kind. In semi-autobiographical verse highlighting in turns light-hearted and harsh realities of modern black womanhood, these poems take the reader down “A History of African-American Hair,” visit with both Grace Jones and the Venus de Milo, send Janis Joplin to cheerleading camp, bemoan a treacherous first pair of high heels, and discuss “vagina business.” Funny, but never flippant, and always forthcoming about the author’s own flaws and foibles.

• Author
• Allison Joseph

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 120

• Publisher
• Red Hen Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781597096096

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 2018