Scorched earth / poems by Tiana Clark.
Record details
- 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.
- Copyright: ©2025
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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Subject: | American poetry > 21st century. African Americans > Social life and customs > Poetry. |
Genre: | Poetry. |
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Scorched Earth : Poems
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Table of Contents
Scorched Earth : Poems
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Prologue: Proof | xii | |
I | There is Still Some Residue | |
Self-Portrait at Divorce | 2 | |
I Like the Way Josh Says Black Love Is Radical | 4 | |
Self-Portrait at 35: Terror | 5 | |
My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work | 6 | |
The Hardest Part of the Human Body | 8 | |
After the Plain Day Becomes Magnificent to Her | 11 | |
After the Reading | 13 | |
II | Some Proof of Puncture | |
The First Black Bachelorette | 16 | |
Scattered, Covered, & Smothered: A Southern Gothic Sonnet | 28 | |
50 Lines after Figure (2001) by Glenn Ligon | 29 | |
Delta Delta Delta | 32 | |
Gentrification | 34 | |
Scorched Earth | 38 | |
III | Some Scars you Graze | |
Broken Ode for the Epigraph | 44 | |
My daddies have voices like bachelors, like castigators & crooners⦠| 48 | |
A Louder Thing | 50 | |
Hell's Bells | 52 | |
I Stare at a Cormorant | 55 | |
Virtue Signaling, Wisconsin | 57 | |
Considering Roe v. Wade, Letters to the Black Body | 59 | |
IV | To Remember the Risk | |
Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy | 62 | |
Annealing | 65 | |
When I Kissed Her Right Breast, I Became Myself Entirely | 66 | |
Indeed Hotter for Me Are the Joys of the Lord | 68 | |
Queer Miracle | 74 | |
I Masturbate Then Pray to God | 76 | |
First Date During Social Distance | 80 | |
The Terror of New Love! | 83 | |
Epilogue: Maybe in Another Life | 86 | |
Notes | 89 | |
Acknowledgments | 93 |