Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.
Contents
'Missed love': Black power and Black poetry -- The loss of lyric space in Gwendolyn Brooks' "In the Mecca" -- Queen Sistuh : Black women poets and the circle(s) of Blackness -- Black feminist communalism : Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf -- Transferences and confluences : Black arts and Black lesbian-feminism in Audre Lorde's The black unicorn.