The Days of Good Looks
Subtitle: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980 to 2005
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780786716753
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; Poetry; General; Literary collections; Poetry / Single Author / American; American - General; African American lesbians; African Americans; Lesbians
First sentence: In 1943 Althea was a welder very dark very butch and very proud loved to cook, sew, and drive a car and did not care who knew she kept company with a woman who met her every day after work in a tight dress and high heels light-skinned and high-cheekboned who loved to shoot, fish, play poker and did not give a damn who knew her 'man' was a woman.