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Book SynopsisCheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement (BAM) and black women writers of the period, whose poems chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation.
Trade ReviewThis 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 *
Table of Contents'Missed love': Black power and Black poetry
The loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca"
Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of Blackness
Black feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Transferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn
