* Tenaya Darlington, Madame Deluxe, is a truthsayer with attitude and an agenda to boot. She’s a charmer, an alarmer, a kick in the pants, a hoot. She embodies generations, furthers traditions; it’s heartening to know what poetry can still do. -Lawson Fusao Inada * In this debut collection of poetry, Darlington shocks, seduces, and intrigues us-spurring us to rethink our ideas about women and feminity. * This book draws you in with the birth of a character who slowly reveals herself. The curtains open on Sequined, Size 16, the first section. Madame Deluxe emerges to sass Venus, rile Aphrodite, resisting modern womanhood. But by the last section, The Bawdy Betrayer, the voice allows the reader a glimpse of all sides of Madame Deluxe.