Antoinette Brim writes like Etta James sings. Her second collection, Icarus in Love, is compelling
testimony to that fact. It is the testimony of a woman who knows the turbulence
of blues—a courageous black woman, and highly skilled poet, overcoming the
storms of living. Brim bears her soul with wrenching power in poems of love,
heartbreak, and church-like revival. The poems are masterfully composed,
adorned with wings of intelligence, and bathed in sunlit imagination.
Truth Thomas is the founder of Cherry
Castle Publishing. His
collections include: Party of Black, A
Day of Presence, Bottle of Life, My TV is Not the Boss of Me (a children's
book, illustrated by Cory Thomas) and Speak Water, winner of the 2013 NAACP
Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry.
