“Legend is history, in the sense that it tells of a past that is fictional and real,” Cheryl Clarke explains to me one evening as we talk about the role of legend in Black history. On Aug. 15, Clarke is releasing a collection of poems spanning from the beginning of her career to new, previously unpublished works, titled Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems. Some of these poems deal in legend; from fictionalized stories of real events, to undeniable fact.