In her original author's note to the 1999 edition, Akilah Oliver writes,"What I am trying to do in these poems is investigate the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
I have read and reread this text and as the titles states "flesh memory" is where it take one. To the surface where mutlipe thoughts are stored. On the flesh from the past to the present, to the universial, Afican American hisotry, love for the female body, and o being female. This text surfaces this readers memeories of her past and of a past unknown. This is one of the most excieting poetic text I have read in a long time. "The she said dialouges" touches the soul of the reader, esspecially one out side the dominat discouse.
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