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Tara Betts

Author of Arc & Hue

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Works by Tara Betts

Arc & Hue (2009) 8 copies, 1 review
Break the Habit (2016) 5 copies
Refuse to Disappear (2022) 5 copies
The Greatest: An Homage to Muhammad Ali (2013) 1 copy
7x7: kwansabas (2014) 1 copy
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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (2015) — Contributor — 793 copies, 13 reviews
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015) — Contributor — 207 copies, 2 reviews
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributor — 141 copies
That Takes Ovaries! Bold Females and their Brazen Acts (2002) — Contributor — 130 copies, 2 reviews
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (2020) — Contributor — 95 copies
The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (2007) — Contributor — 86 copies, 3 reviews
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 66 copies, 1 review
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (2017) — Contributor — 59 copies, 3 reviews
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributor — 19 copies
Best Black Women's Erotica 2 (2003) — Contributor — 18 copies
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2020) — Contributor — 18 copies
Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributor — 14 copies
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) — Contributor — 13 copies
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (2002) — Contributor — 8 copies
Adventures in Black and White (2LP Classics) (2018) — Editor, some editions — 7 copies, 3 reviews
Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler (2014) — Contributor — 5 copies
Come As You Are (2017) — Contributor — 4 copies
Between the Covers: A Bookstore Erotica Anthology (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy

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benuathanasia1,935 reviews
Arc & Hue by Tara Betts
To me, there was absolutely nothing remarkable about this collection at all. None of the poems spoke to me, none stood out (few were comprehensible) and many of them were needlessly vulgar (comparing the crack in the ceiling to a woman's vulva? What was the point in that?).
I think it's poetry books like this that have made good poetry fall by the wayside.
Which would you prefer; 80 pages of half-assed poetry for $16 (when you can find much better online for free) or a 300 page piece of show more prose with a story and character development for $6-$19?
If you really enjoy "spoken-word" poetry (whatever that is), give it a go. Personally, I'll be sticking to Poe, Naruda, and Wordsworth. show less
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Feb 15, 2010

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