Abstract
Abstract
Alongside Judy Grahn and Adrienne Rich, the Black lesbian feminist poet Pat Parker was part of a holy trinity of lesbian poets in the early 1970s. Forging a new space for working-class lesbian writers of colour, Parker constantly faced the pressures of earning money to survive: her work has been subject to sparse and erratic publication, and renewed critical attention is long overdue. Building on the recent publication of Parker’s Collected Poems and her correspondence with Audre Lorde, as well as her friendship with Judy Grahn, this examination of Parker’s unflinching poetry extends and deepens the conceptualizations of queer poetry, community, and identity addressed in earlier chapters, from the advent of lesbian feminism to the onset of AIDS.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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