Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writing

I bought this book back in 1999 and it contains some great poems like "Mr. Goodbar". I would recomend that you pick this one up as well as Erotic Noire.

I wanted so much to love this book, especially since it was billed and packaged to be the sequel to Erotique Noire, the best book of African Diaspora erotica ever written. This one has its hot moments, but it fails to embrace the scope and depth of that first work. It is a thick book, as thick as Erotique Noire, but it only has about half the number of entries. I believe its size was an unfair marketing device. I thought I was getting another remarkable encyclopedic work. Its redeeming quality is that it selected very good writers. I am still looking for the real sequel to Erotique Noire. And I demand that it be a big book that covers all of the bases.

Dark Eros is a sweet and sensuous journey where you travel with Reginald Martin, unprotected. From the articulate and pointed preface, to the last selection, the reader is rewarded with a myriad of poems and prose that move from tender renderings to spontaneous and passionate pieces, full of rhythmic energy. The book is a consant "eargasm" to the reader who is moved by the joy of words. Readers beware! Martin is a trickster and these poems are encoded with layers of subtext. Approach these pieces as you would a favorite sensual pleasures of black feeling, black love, black passion.

Dark Eros is a wonderful anthology that begins with a perceptively, intellectual preface by the author, by editor/compiler, Reginald Martin. This book is for those who want to take a sensual journey through black erotica without protection. I entered these poems with delight and left them with exhiliration. Dr. Martin has selected poems that satisfy all appetites for carnal pleasures with a driving, rhythmic, energy. These selections are brave enough to speak to your heart, mind, and spirit as well as to your intimate desires. Readers: Sink into these profoundly beautiful words as you would a lavender-scented bath, drawn by your favorite lover. Dark Eros is a lovely "eargasm" made possible by the eloquence, sensitivity, and brave insight only a Doctor of Love like Reginald Martin can release upon us. Oh how we love it like that!

I love this effort! It is on par with the other tasty African-American book-Erotique Noire! Although I would say that EN is better-I still like it a lot! More-more-more-more! I have to keep my praise and enthisiasm simple when it comes to books like this one.It has helped me to understand that my thoughts, fantasies, dreams that happen to be erotic are natural and OK! It also really shows how Black Writing has come out of the closet and is viable, profitable, and necessary. Write on! (pun intended)-ed-