Authors / Interviews
Architecture, Texture, and Grace: A Cover Image Story
Hello Milkweed readers! I’m Mary Austin Speaker, Milkweed’s Creative Director, and I was honored to talk with Ama Codjoe this week about her extraordinary first book, Bluest Nude, which is due out in September 2022.
Mary Austin Speaker: Bluest Nude is a powerful, vulnerable collection of poems that explores the practice of seeing and being seen as well as the ways we move through intimacy, memory, and art. Can you describe some of the central experiences that inspired Bluest Nude?
Ama Codjoe: In 2019, I attended the art exhibit, Posing Modernity: the Black Model from Manet…