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 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | Lorde, Audre, |
| Other Authors: | Gay, Roxane, |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 367 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.