Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems is the debut collection of poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, published in 2015 by Alfred A. Knopf.

Central allegorical tenets of the image are in turn based on a poem by Isaac Teale, "The Sable Venus: An Ode"[4] (included in Edwards' book)[5] which, according to Dan Chiasson, who reviewed Lewis's collection in The New Yorker, "celebrates the pleasures of raping slave women, since black and white—Sable Venus and Botticelli's Venus—are, after all, the same 'at night'.

[2] Psychoanalyst and literary scholar Michael Vannoy Adams notes that the image is "euphemism that represses the enormity of the slave trade and conveniently excuses it" and presents the Middle Passage as a route taken by choice, rather than by force.

It consists entirely of "'titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions' of objects in Western art that depict the black female form, going back to 38,000 B.C.

Dan Chiasson's lengthy review in The New Yorker praised the conception and execution of Lewis' "many-chambered and remarkable collection", noting how form enhances meaning, especially in a "formally inventive section divides women from the objects that embody them by a method of formal panning, where the residue of personhood is extracted and isolated on the page".

[10] Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus is a meditation on the cultural depiction of the black female figure.