"A brilliant offering in the New Age Renaissance Republic of Poetry, the story of the African American goddess in the essence of love and beauty, a truthtelling inside the brutality of the dislocated places of the post-modern world. Anthem is a dialogue in gender and race relations, an African American Poet revealing great suffering and in the telling, a crucible for peace. This poetry is a no holds barred truthtelling, that dispells the demons, the raw emotions fashioned into poetic climes brings into the light, dance, and celebration in healing. The poetry is in the imago of the Black Madonna, harsh realities told bare bones and through the beautiful essence of the Poet, the Reader is brought to a place of love. This poetry is inspirational, as if having been born from listening to the speeches of Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, Jr. It rises like a bird in the blue of sky, taking your spirit high and higher. As if poetry inside the eye of God, of good and all that is right, a gift of the essence of woman, the Black Madonna, a treatise in the power of love." - Subterranean Blue Poetry