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Scorched earth / poems by Tiana Clark.

Clark, Tiana, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781668052075
  • ISBN: 1668052075
  • Physical Description: xiii, 94 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Washington Square Press/Atria Paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Washington Square Press/Atria, 2025.

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"SCORCHED EARTH moves between ruins and radical love--fragility and tenderness in the wake of a divorce transform and expand into virtuosic stanzas, full of ache and sweetness. From ekphrastic poems on Kara Walker, to a standout series on the first Black Bachelorette, Clark's stanzas shift between reverence and irreverence, hold institutional and historical pains alongside sensuality and queer, Black joys"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject: American poetry > 21st century.
African Americans > Social life and customs > Poetry.
Genre: Poetry.

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Main 811.6 C549s (Text) 31307026303984 New Checked out 07/28/2025

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Scorched Earth : Poems
Scorched Earth : Poems
by Clark, Tiana
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Table of Contents

Scorched Earth : Poems

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Prologue: Proofxii
IThere is Still Some Residue
    Self-Portrait at Divorce2
    I Like the Way Josh Says Black Love Is Radical4
    Self-Portrait at 35: Terror5
    My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work6
    The Hardest Part of the Human Body8
    After the Plain Day Becomes Magnificent to Her11
    After the Reading13
IISome Proof of Puncture
    The First Black Bachelorette16
    Scattered, Covered, & Smothered: A Southern Gothic Sonnet28
    50 Lines after Figure (2001) by Glenn Ligon29
    Delta Delta Delta32
    Gentrification34
    Scorched Earth38
IIISome Scars you Graze
    Broken Ode for the Epigraph44
    My daddies have voices like bachelors, like castigators & crooners…48
    A Louder Thing50
    Hell's Bells52
    I Stare at a Cormorant55
    Virtue Signaling, Wisconsin57
    Considering Roe v. Wade, Letters to the Black Body59
IVTo Remember the Risk
    Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy62
    Annealing65
    When I Kissed Her Right Breast, I Became Myself Entirely66
    Indeed Hotter for Me Are the Joys of the Lord68
    Queer Miracle74
    I Masturbate Then Pray to God76
    First Date During Social Distance80
    The Terror of New Love!83
Epilogue: Maybe in Another Life86
Notes89
Acknowledgments93

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