{"id":1904,"date":"2015-03-22T22:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T05:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2015-03-22T22:53:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T05:53:38","slug":"book-review-living-as-a-lesbian-by-cheryl-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/book-review-living-as-a-lesbian-by-cheryl-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Living as a Lesbian, by Cheryl Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clarke, Cheryl. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/living-as-a-lesbian\/oclc\/866102568&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\">Living as a Lesbian<\/a>.<\/em> A Midsummer Night?s Press, 2014. PB. 152p. $17.95. 978-1-938334-06-1. Simultaneously published as Sinister Wisdom 91, ISSN: 0196-1853.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Clarke-Living-as-a-Lesbian.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1905\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Clarke-Living-as-a-Lesbian.png\" alt=\"Clarke Living as a Lesbian\" width=\"307\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Clarke-Living-as-a-Lesbian.png 307w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Clarke-Living-as-a-Lesbian-297x475.png 297w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Clarke-Living-as-a-Lesbian-129x206.png 129w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Clarke-Living-as-a-Lesbian-131x210.png 131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a>This is a reprint of a classic volume of lesbian poetry from 1986. Written by poet, scholar and activist, Cheryl Clarke it reflects the strength and breathes the truth of a black lesbian-feminist world that many readers have not experienced. Clarke addresses this gap in experience with a new ?Notes? section that puts many of the poems in the context of their era and the politics surrounding the verses. A new preface by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and an introduction by Nancy K. Bereano further set the stage for this important and moving collection of poems.<br \/>\nHere is a taste, a section from ?i come to the city?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">The city fumes with expectations<br \/>\nand the smells of women<br \/>\nwanting women.<br \/>\nI been in love<br \/>\nsix times in the last six months<br \/>\nand ain?t done tryin yet.<\/p>\n<p>This slim volume should find a home in all poetry and lgbtq collections.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Gwenwald, SUNY New Paltz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarke, Cheryl. Living as a Lesbian. A Midsummer Night?s Press, 2014. PB. 152p. $17.95. 978-1-938334-06-1. Simultaneously published as Sinister Wisdom 91, ISSN: 0196-1853. This is a reprint of a classic volume of lesbian poetry from 1986. Written by poet, scholar and activist, Cheryl Clarke it reflects the strength and breathes the truth of a black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":1905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19,40],"tags":[132,84,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}