What Critics Say about: C.C. Carter's "Body Language"
ms. carter is serving poetry that you can taste! Poetry that works the page and the heart/cc’s work documents today’s Black lesbian voice with raw flavor and piercing exactness…
- sharon bridgforth
Lambda Award Winning author
"the bull-jean stories" (Redbone Press)
In "Body Language" C.C. Carter gives boice to her layered truths of being femme, lesbian, black and Latina in a society that sees her and thinks straight and African-American. Body Language portrays C.C.’s voyage to womanhood, and she proves to be the best translator for the trip.
- Lisa C. Moore
Lambda literary Award Winner
Redbone Press
A celebration of the physical nature of language, the poems in "Body Language" bend to the heat of C.C.’s voice, wrap themselves into verses, stanzas, songs of desire and self-love that make you want to shout "yes yes yes yes yes!" with reading…
- Cin Salach
Art Correspondent Art Beat Chicago