Cheryl Clarke
Autor(a) de Living As a Lesbian: Poetry
About the Author
Cheryl Clarke is the Director of the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay Concerns at Rutgers University
Image credit: photo by Robert Giard
Obras de Cheryl Clarke
Conditions Fifteen 5 cópias
Conditions: Seventeen 4 cópias
Associated Works
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuinte — 448 cópias
Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (1997) — Contribuinte — 123 cópias
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Contribuinte — 121 cópias
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Contribuinte — 78 cópias
The Leading Edge: An Anthology of Lesbian Sexual Fiction (Lady Winston Series) (1987) — Contribuinte — 69 cópias
Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing (Other Countries) (2006) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1947
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Howard University
Rutgers University - Ocupação
- writer
teacher
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 26
- Membros
- 354
- Popularidade
- #67,648
- Avaliação
- 4.3
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 18
A prompt in this year's Book Riot Reader Harder Challenge is "Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author." I thought immediately of Ms. Clarke's poetry books -- she is a Black lesbian -- so I snatched this one off the shelf last night, spent some time with each poem again. Still very powerful although less startingly fresh than they were in 1990, the year after they were published. I wish I could have evoked Ms. Clarke's delivery, the cadence of her expressive voice. I could almost hear an echo of it in "Ella Takes Up the Slack," which I remember as one of the poems she read that evening. Two of my favorites in the collection are "The Day Sam Cooke Died" and "Epic of Song."… (mais)