Audre Lorde, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-393-03513-1
Lorde's ( A Burst of Light ) poems have always melded the political and lyrical worlds, the ordinary and the luminous, addressing controversial topics that she struggled with as a black lesbian poet, and the work in The Marvelous Arithmetics of...
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Audre Lorde, Author Firebrand Books $9.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-932379-39-9
In 1984, feminist poet Lorde learned that her breast cancer had metastasized to the liver. The moving title section comprises a series of journal excerpts that both frighten and inspire: choosing not to have a biopsy, she instead treats the disease...
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Edited by Roxane Gay. Norton, $16.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-324-00461-5
This well-chosen selection of work by feminist author Lorde (1934–1992) features incisive prose pieces and poems from nine collections published between 1968 and 1993. In the fiery 1979 polemic “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s...
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