Cheryl Clarke is the author of four books of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women, Living as a Lesbian, Humid Pitch, and Experimental Love. In addition,

This is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement, their contributions to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and their impact on the poets who succeeded them. Clarke has the advantage of being an "insider" who witnessed part of the era she's analyzing. - Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College, co-author of Gender Talk)

• 'Missed love': Black power and Black poetryThe loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca"Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of BlacknessBlack feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufTransferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn

Cheryl Clarke is the author of four books of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women, Living as a Lesbian, Humid Pitch, and Experimental Love. In addition,

This is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement, their contributions to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and their impact on the poets who succeeded them. Clarke has the advantage of being an "insider" who witnessed part of the era she's analyzing. - Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College, co-author of Gender Talk)

• 'Missed love': Black power and Black poetryThe loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca"Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of BlacknessBlack feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufTransferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn

Cheryl Clarke is the author of four books of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women, Living as a Lesbian, Humid Pitch, and Experimental Love. In addition,

This is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement, their contributions to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and their impact on the poets who succeeded them. Clarke has the advantage of being an "insider" who witnessed part of the era she's analyzing. - Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman College, co-author of Gender Talk)

• 'Missed love': Black power and Black poetryThe loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca"Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of BlacknessBlack feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufTransferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn