The selected works of Audre Lorde
"A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,' for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her in...
| Uniform Title: | Works. Selections |
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| Main Author: | Lorde, Audre, |
| Other Authors: | Gay, Roxane, |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 367 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,' for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her incisive essays and passionate poetry-alive with sensuality, vulnerability, and rage-remain indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies. This essential reader showcases 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. The essays include 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House,' 'I Am Your Sister,' and excerpts from the National Book Award-winning A Burst of Light. The poems are drawn from Lorde's nine volumes, including National Book Award nominee The Land Where Other People Live. As Gay writes in her astute introduction, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde celebrates 'an exemplar of public intellectualism who is as relevant in this century as she was in the last'"-- |
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| Item Description: |
Essays and poetry. Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354) and indexes. Prose -- Poetry is not a luxury (1977) -- The transformation of silence into language and action (1977) -- My mother's mortar (1977) -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power (1978) -- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house (1979) -- Sexism : an American disease in blackface (1979) -- The uses of anger : women responding to racism (1981) -- Fourth of July (1982) -- I am your sister : Black women organizing across sexualities (1985) -- A burst of light : living with cancer (1988) -- Is your hair still political? (1990) -- Difference and survival : an address at Hunter College (undated) -- Poetry -- From: The first cities (1988) -- A family resemblance -- Coal -- Now that I am forever with child -- Spring III -- To a girl who knew what side her bread was buttered on -- Father and Son and Holy Ghost -- Generation -- If you come softly -- Suffer the children -- A lover's song -- Suspension -- From: Cables to rage (1970) -- Rooming houses are old women -- Bloodbirth -- Martha -- Sowing -- Making it -- On a night of the full moon -- From: A land where other people live (1973) -- Progress report -- Moving out, or, The end of cooperative living -- Change of season -- Generation II -- Love, maybe -- Conclusion -- Movement song -- Who said it was simple -- From: New York Head Shop and Museum (1974) -- New York 1970 -- The American Cancer Society, or, There is more than one way to skin a coon -- A sewerplant grows in Harlem, or, I'm a stranger here myself when does the next swan leave -- One year to life on the Grand Central Shuttle -- The workers rose on May Day, or, Postscript to Karl Marx -- Cables to rage, or, I've been talking on this street corner a hell of a long time -- Keyfood -- To the girl who lives in a tree -- Love poem -- Separation -- Song for a thin sister -- Revolution is one form of social change -- The brown menace, or, Poem to the survival of roaches -- Sacrifice -- From: Between our selves (1976) -- Power -- Solstice -- Scar -- Between ourselves -- From: The Black unicorn (1978) -- A woman speaks -- Coniagui women -- Chain -- Sequelae -- A litany for survival -- Portrait -- Therapy -- Recreation -- Artisan -- Contact lenses -- But what can you teach my daughter -- From inside an empty purse -- A small slaughter -- Sister outsider -- "Never take fire from a woman" -- Between ourselves -- From: Chosen poems : old and new (1982) -- The evening news -- After images -- A poem for women in rage -- From: Our dead behind us (1986) -- To the poet who happens to be Black and the Black poet who happens to be a woman -- Outlines -- Equal opportunity -- Diaspora -- A question of climate -- Florida -- Political relations -- The are no honest poems about dead women -- From: The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993) -- Making love to concrete -- Thaw -- Inheritance, his -- jessehelms -- The politics of addiction -- Today is not the day. "A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,' for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her incisive essays and passionate poetry-alive with sensuality, vulnerability, and rage-remain indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies. This essential reader showcases 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. The essays include 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House,' 'I Am Your Sister,' and excerpts from the National Book Award-winning A Burst of Light. The poems are drawn from Lorde's nine volumes, including National Book Award nominee The Land Where Other People Live. As Gay writes in her astute introduction, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde celebrates 'an exemplar of public intellectualism who is as relevant in this century as she was in the last'"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Physical Description: |
xvi, 367 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781324004615 1324004614 |