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"