The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love » (First Edition)

Rosemarie Robotham is editor-at-large for Essence magazine, author of the novel Zachary's Wings, and coauthor of Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century.

A collection of the very best writing by African-American women, The Bluelight Corner explores and reveals all the rich and varied dimensions of Black women's romantic lives. A dramatic, touching, lively, erotic, tender, tragic, fierce, bawdy, heartfelt, and utterly surprising collection of voices, this is a one-of-a-kind gem of fiction and memoir.

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Essence editor-at-large Robotham collects tales of passion from Naylor, Kincaid, Walker, et al.