Threed, This Road Not Damascus - by Tamara J Madison (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Threed, This Road Not Damascus is a full-length poetry collection and dialogue between the speaker and other-worldly persona, "Three-Breasted Woman." Empowered and empowering, "Three-Breasted Woman" defies feminine stereotypes of comfort, clean-up, and "damsel in distress." Congruently, Threed, This Road Not Damascus confronts fear and chaos with clarity and courage in a distinctive feminine voice. The poems employ the ancestral and mythological to respond to the contemporary social landscape.

Review Quotes

"I love the large of the all-encompassing voice in Tamara J. Madison's work, its re-making of history, its daring, convincing belief in the spell of language that transforms, that enchants us into just beings.

I love the myth-making, and the imaginative sweeps of this work." --Ilya Kaminsky

"Threed, This Road Not Damascus, which takes its name from The Three-Breasted Woman and serves as muse for the poet, Tamara J. Madison, functions through multiplicity of voice, drawing on the innate strength Black women have long had to exhibit/endure, often in silence within patriarchal structures. Madison commits to the dangerous but beautiful task of poeting, which is often an insurrection against the dominate narrative for the sake of a more inclusive narrative." --Randall Horton

"Tamara J. Madison gives us a story 'between mantra, mojo, conjure' of women, women primordial. The retelling is lush and pure. The power of the poetry in Threed, This Road Not Damascus comes from her miracle of inventing--the poems are what they are about." --Carol Frost