To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Format:Hardcover We see hair as inky

We see hair as inky black and smooth as a peaceful night sky

returns to Việt Nam with his wife

and the traumatic fate of young girls in her village

Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens

A’s breakthrough and breakup

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Format:Hardcover We see hair as inkyA genre bending exploration of poetry, photography, and human migrationanother revelatory visual expedition from the National Book Awardwinning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure.Lewis pushes the limits of language and image, composing lines alongside a cache of hundreds of photographs found under her late grandmothers bed only days before the house was slated to be razed. Kevin Young, The New YorkerTwenty