{"product_id":"acts-of-resistance-essential-essays-archival-encounters-and-new-poems-paperback","title":"Acts of Resistance: Essential Essays, Archival Encounters, and New Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCheryl Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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 timeless. \u003ci\u003eActs of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e gather Clarke's most beloved essays alongside archival finds and recent poems. 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 \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color\u003c\/i\u003e (1981) and \u003ci\u003eHome Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (1983). These essays and others defined generations of lesbian, feminist, and queer thinkers, writers and activists. Discover-- or revisit-- the inimitable Cheryl Clarke through \u003ci\u003eActs of Resistance.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, critic, and activist Cheryl Clarke was born in Washington, DC. She earned her degrees from Howard University and Rutgers University. Clarke is the author of five collections of poetry: \u003ci\u003eNarratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eLiving as a Lesbian\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eHumid Pitch\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eExperimental Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eBy My Precise Haircut\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), which won a Hilary Tham Capital Competition, and \u003ci\u003eArchives of Style: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2024). She wrote the critical study \u003ci\u003e\" After Mecca\" Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eThe Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980- 2005\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). Clarke served as co-editor of \u003ci\u003eConditions\u003c\/i\u003e, \" a feminist journal of writing, with an emphasis on writing by lesbians.\" She currently lives in Hobart, New York, where, with her partner, Barbara J. Balliet, she owns and operates Blenheim Hill Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43357059645529,"sku":"9781944981938","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/zpd1CBpYvb9781944981938.webp?v=1779937122","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/de\/products\/acts-of-resistance-essential-essays-archival-encounters-and-new-poems-paperback","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}