Book jacket image for Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark

Washington Square

9781668052075

STARRED REVIEW

Scorched Earth

Tiana Clark’s searching second poetry collection, Scorched Earth, embraces “too muchness” as a pure expression of the politicized body, history and art.

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Review of ‘Scorched Earth’

With Scorched Earth, Tiana Clark has sculpted a collection for those who love literature and who wrestle with what it means to love themselves.

From the outset of the collection, it becomes clear that we are exploring life after personal apocalypse. Her prologue introduces the post-divorce context of the book while laying out the thematic…

Interview with Tiana Clark

Award-winning poet and essayist Tiana Clark lets us peer into the process behind her second collection, Scorched Earth—an exquisite book that reckons with history and rings with joy.

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