Wife. Daughter. Mother. Lover. Sistah. Elissa Gabrielle wears and displays all these hats and then some in her second book of poetry, Peace in the Storm. Alternately taking a reverent tone one moment and a razor-sharp tongue the next, she tells it like it is when it comes to being an African-American woman in the twenty-first century. Peace in the Storm celebrates-and laments-the joys and pains of a Black woman in American society. From the tribute offered in Dearest Papa, the struggle of many women against drugs in The Triumph of My Soul and Lost on Crack Boulevard, the profoundness of The Hyphen, the sensuality of Only in My Empire and many hilarious one-liners in between, Elissa Gabrielle has woven a glorious tapestry of life, love and loss.