An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles: Poems by Mary E. WeemsAn Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles: Poems

by Mary E. Weems

ISBN: 978-1-933964-18-8 | 80 pages

Yes, this writer is a woman, who knows that “every mouth’s its own love language, / lust’s first cousin.” And yes, she is a black woman, for whom the eyes of Barack Obama “are so deep brown / I see blue in them, / ocean water, / bones rising, / right fists raised.” And yes, like the rest of us, she’s getting older, “hair graying in places / I shouldn’t have hair.” But beyond all divisions, she is a poet, who knows that poetry is music, and music is “the first place Black and White / came together like unwritten notes / in a jazz composition.” In these poems Mary Weems both challenges and embraces America in all its turbulence and beauty. We should be grateful. —George Bilgere, author of Haywire.