Acts of Resistance: Essential Essays, Archival Encounters, and New Poems

These times need urgently Cheryl Clarke and her brilliant mind and words. Clarke’ s sharp, clear-eyed, forceful, and poetic essays offer readers both balm and provocation to action— and they continue to resonate in current political landscape. Clarke is a towering figure in the worlds of poetry, feminist and queer theory, and lesbian, feminist, and queer communities. She has been writing and thinking with and in her communities for over fifty years. Her work is prescient, classic, and timel...