The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

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    Audre Lorde

    Publisher: WW Norton

    Year: 2020

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 352 pages

    ISBN: 9781324004615

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A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.

Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems—selected and introduced by one of our most powerful contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Gay.

Among the essays included here are:

"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action"

"The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House"

"I Am Your Sister"

Excerpts from the American Book Award–winning A Burst of Light

The poems are drawn from Lorde’s nine volumes, including The Black Unicorn and National Book Award finalist From a Land Where Other People Live. Among them are:

"Martha"

"A Litany for Survival"

"Sister Outsider"

"Making Love to Concrete"

About the Author

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) published nine volumes of poetry and five works of prose. She was a recipient of many distinguished honors and awards, including honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford Colleges, and was named New York State Poet (1991-1993).

Book Details

Author: Audre Lorde
Editor: Roxane Gay
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781324004615
Size: 352 pages
Publisher: WW Norton
Year: 2020

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