Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems

A new retrospective of a titan of LGBTQ literature, activism, and Black feminism Award-winning poet and essayist...
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Author: Cheryl Clarke
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Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems by Clarke, Cheryl

Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems

$58.76

Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems

$58.76
Author: Cheryl Clarke
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A new retrospective of a titan of LGBTQ literature, activism, and Black feminism

Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke's illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates in Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems, a long-awaited retrospective of the indelible work of a Black feminist, community and LGBTQ activist, and educator. This collection features carefully curated poems from Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1982), Living as a Lesbian (1986), The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry 1980-2005 (2006), By My Precise Haircut (2016), and Targets (2019). Together these works show a brilliant thinker who has profoundly impacted generations of writers and activists.

Clarke's poetry and essays, centered around the Black, lesbian, feminist experience, have attracted an audience around the world. Her essays, "Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance" and "The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community" revolutionized the thinking about lesbians of color and the struggle against homophobia. Her poetry and non-fiction have been reprinted in numerous anthologies and assigned in women and sexuality courses globally. Having published since 1977, Clarke and her work have become a foundational part of LGBTQ literature and activism. Archive of Style is a celebration and homage to one of American literature's Black Women literary warriors.


Author: Cheryl Clarke
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Published: 08/15/2024
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780810147607


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Foreword 06/10/2024

About the Author
Poet, critic, and activist Cheryl Clarke was born in Washington, DC. She earned her BA from Howard University and her MA and PhD from Rutgers University. Clarke is the author of five collections of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1983), Living as a Lesbian (1986), Humid Pitch (1989), Experimental Love (1993), and By My Precise Haircut (2016), which won a Hilary Tham Capital Competition. She wrote the critical study "After Mecca" Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), and a volume collecting her poetry and prose was published as The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980-2005 (2006). Many of Clarke's most influential essays, including "Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance" and "The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community," first appeared in landmark publications such as This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983). Clarke served as editor for Conditions, an influential journal of lesbian feminist literature.

All of Clarke's writings advocate for queer communities of color, paying attention to the social implications of language and labels and the possibilities of art and activism to stage resistance to dominant culture. According to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who co-organized a conference on Clarke at Rutgers in 2013, "Cheryl Clarke's life and work offer an enduring rejection of straightness and a constant reorientation to alternative space."

Clarke was an influential administrator and teacher at Rutgers for more than 40 years. She founded the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay Concerns, which became the Office of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, and retired as the Livingstone Dean of Students in 2013. For her service to LGBTQ communities, Clarke received a David Kessler Award. She currently lives in Hobart, New York, where she owns and operates Blenheim Hill Books with her partner, Barbara J. Balliet.

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