She had a gift, however, of turning immense vulnerability into strength, and rather than shy away from discussing this diagnosis and the way it physically altered her body, she campaigned-most notably in her 1980 work The Cancer Journals-to eliminate the shame of breast cancer and amputation. In 1978, Lorde detected a lump in her breast, a discovery that led, eventually, to a mastectomy. While her writing was blisteringly political, it was also deeply personal. Her books-among them Sister Outsider, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and her Collected Poems-all sought to pierce "the tyrannies of silence." One of her greatest subjects was crumbling the twin pillars of racism and sexism: "Within this country, where racial difference creates a constant, if unspoken, distortion of vision, Black women have on one hand always been highly visible, and so, on the other hand, have been rendered invisible through the depersonalization of racism." And there are so many silences to be broken," she wrote in "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." She fought especially hard to create space for Black and queer women in that movement, to "bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. Through her activism and work-speeches, essays, poems, journals-she was a tireless revolutionary in the fight for women's rights. Over the next sixty years, she became an undeniable icon, a self-styled "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" synonymous with intersectional feminism. Her constellation of honors includes honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford colleges.The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Audre Lorde was born in 1934 in Harlem. you will welcome the sheer accessibility and the force and beauty of this volume." - Out MagazineĪudre Lorde (1934-1992) published eleven volumes of poetry and five works of prose. "What a deep pleasure to encounter Audre Lorde's most potent genius.
Her poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving." - Chuckanut Reader Magazine "This is an amazing collection of poetry by. "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms - beautifully, forcefully - for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate." - Publishers Weekly Includes index, every poem ever published by the late poet, who is noted for the passion and vision of her poems about being African American, a lesbian, a mother, and a daughter, is collected in a definitive anthology of her work.
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